Artists: need legal advice?

We have a number of legal fact sheets designed specifically for artists and arts organisations. Please go to the legal information page for more details.

If you need legal advice from a lawyer, you can lodge a request using our online form. Please go to the legal services page and click on the link to the form.

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Arts Law's newsletter goes digital

The first online edition of ART+law is available to view HERE.

Resale royalty scheme

The Australian visual artists’ resale royalty scheme commenced on 9 June 2010.The scheme entitles visual artists to receive payment of a 5% royalty on certain resales of their works. To participate in the scheme, you need to register – you can register online at www.resaleroyalty.org.au.

The Australian Government has appointed Copyright Agency Ltd (CAL) to manage the scheme. For more information about the scheme and what it means for artists, click here.

If you have any enquiries about the scheme please email resale@copyright.com.au or phone 1800 066 844.

Copyright Agency Ltd: Resale Royalty Scheme Information Sessions

Copyright Agency Ltd (CAL) will be hosting a series of information sessions on the Australian visual artists' resale royalty scheme during July, August and September. Artists and 'art market professionals' (art dealers, galleries, auction houses and Indiegnous art centres) who attend these seminars will be able to find out what the scheme means for them and what they need to do to participate.

Sessions will be held in most of the Australian capital cities, as well as Cairns and Alice Springs. This link will take you to CAL's websie for specific infomration about dates, times and venues. Note that the information on CAL's website includes times for both kinds of sessions (artists and art market professionals), so please be sure to register for the correct one.

New documents available:

Creative Enterprise Hubs

In association with Arts NSW, Arts Law has prepared a suite of documents as a blueprint for councils, communities and local businesses interested int he development of Creative Enterprise Hubs. Creative Enterprise Hubs nurture creative, artistic and cultural projects and enterprises by giving them short term access to unused or abandoned spaces pending redevelopment or rental on commercial terms.

Website Terms of Use - Sample Agreement

These sample terms of use are for use on websites either with a blog (i.e. a public "discussion board" that allows users to post their comments for others to read and comment on) or a more traditional website without a blog.

Available for purchse HERE.

Indigenous IP toolkit

The Cultural Ministers Council, through the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts has recently engaged the Arts Law Centre of Australia to deliver the Indigenous Intellectual Property (IIP) Toolkit. Cultural Ministers have acknowledged the need to effectively increase awareness of IIP and promote best practice. More information is available HERE.

Arts Law submissions

Check out Arts Law's latest submissioms:

- on proposed changes to artistic merit defence in NSW here.
- about working with children protocols here.
- about the National Cultural Policy here.
- in response to the Indigenous Heritage Law Reform Discussion Paper here