This month, Arts Law has reviewed the terms and conditions of the Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award 2022. Read the terms and conditions of this competition here. Arts Law contacted Allen & Unwin with recommendations to make the terms and conditions of this award more artist friendly. Unfortunately, the organisers did not wish to discuss their terms with … Continued
Over the next couple of weeks Arts Law lawyers, Donna Robinson and Rob Bitmead are travelling to Roebourne and Port Hedland as part of our AITB outreach program. We will be visiting art centres and Indigenous language centres in the area to meet up with our clients and give legal advice clinics to advise artists … Continued
Congratulations to all our 2022 Pro Bono Award winners. It was wonderful to see so many smiling faces join us for another in person celebration at King & Wood Mallesons Sydney office last week. Rebecca Stanley, Senior Associate and Coordinator of the Arts Law Document Review Service at KWM welcomed us along with our guests, … Continued
If you are an artist affected by the recent South-East Queensland and Northern New South Wales flooding, you should be aware of how to maximise your chances of insurance coverage during an extraordinary catastrophe or natural disaster. Understanding your policy It is necessary you understand how your policy defines flood, storm or rainwater damage. Some … Continued
This month, by popular demand, Arts Law created a new information sheet on Non-Fungible Tokens or “NFTs”. While NFTs are booming and becoming more and more popular, there is still a lot of confusion about how they work. We hope that this sheet will introduce artists to the diverse and complex world of NFTs, and … Continued
As part of our AITB outreach program, Donna Robinson of Arts Law travelled to Erub Arts on Darnley Island in the far north of the Torres Strait in early March 2022. We were accompanied by Berkeley Cox, partner, and Donella Mills, lawyer, from King & Wood Mallesons and art curator, Sarah Cox. It is a … Continued
On 25 February 2022, Arts Law made a submission to the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Communications on the exposure draft of the Copyright Amendment (Access Reform) Bill 2021 and corresponding discussion paper. The proposed reforms were about: Limitations on remedies for use of orphan works. A new fair dealing exception for non-commercial quotation. … Continued
This month, Arts Law is proud to welcome Marie Foyle to the team as our new Principal Solicitor. Marie will oversee Arts Law’s legal advice service including the provision of legal advice to individual artists and arts organisations with arts related legal problems. This includes overseeing the Artists in the Black service for Aboriginal & … Continued
This month, Arts Law reviewed the terms and conditions of the Very Short Film Festival (VSFF). Arts Law reached out to Artology, the organiser of the festival, to make this competition’s terms and conditions even more artist friendly. We were delighted that the organisers of the Festival took on board some of our suggestions. The deadline … Continued
Just before Christmas last year we welcomed Courtney Duddleston to the Arts Law team. Courtney is our Finance and Operations Manager. She oversees the day-to-day operations of the Arts Law office, driving all financial and operational activities. I am incredibly excited to be working at Arts Law. I have a particular interest for literary fiction … Continued