Legal services for the creative sector
Description
D'Art Topic No. 15: Legal Services for the Creative Sector
Request date: August 2003
We have been asked by Mary Donn, Policy Advisor, Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand, to assist with research into models of government intervention legal services that exist internationally (including those for individual artists such as Arts Law in Australia).
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Publications
Arts Law Centre of Australia
The Arts Law Centre of Australia is the national community legal centre for the arts in Australia. more >
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
Provides free legal assistance to artists and arts organizations who otherwise could not afford it. more >
StarvingArtistsLaw.com
StarvingArtistsLaw.com is the launch pad for artists and writers looking for self help legal information. more >
The Law Portal
A variety of ersources on legal issues in the arts. more >
The Artists Legal Outreach
The Artists Legal Outreach is a pilot project of the Alliance for Arts and Culture. It provides artists in all disciplines with access to summary legal advice and hold dialogues on arts-related issues. more >
International list of arts law services
An international list of arts law service organisations from the artsmanagement.net newsletter 67, 17 Feb 2007. more >
Who Owns Culture? - Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law
Susan Scafidi takes the reader on a tour of the no-man's-land between law and culture. more >
News
A matter of joining forces
The Canadian Artists' Representation/le Front des artistes canadiens was established in 1968 to protect artists' right to be paid fairly. more >
Kennedy Center to help struggling arts groups
With the nation's nonprofit arts organizations suffering in the dismal economy, the stalwart John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is offering crisis consulting to see them through. more >
Funding cut may close low-cost legal advice organisation
An organisation offering cut-price legal advice to arts groups across London has emerged as one of the latest victims of Arts Council England’s proposed funding cuts. more >
Visual Artists' Legal Clinic
CARFAC Ontario has a legal service for members: the Visual Artists' Legal Clinic of Ontario (VALCO). more >
New law for Swiss culture and the arts
Five years after the Swiss government’s authority in matters concerning cultural policy was enshrined in the constitution, a parliamentary bill containing a new statutory instrument on the promotion of culture (KfG) and extensive amendments to the Pro Helvetia Act (PHG) has been submitted for public appraisal. more >
Copps pushes international law on culture
Sheila Copps, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, and Line Beauchamp, Quebec's Minister of Culture and Communications, met with a number of Canadian arts and culture organisations in Montreal to solidify support for a proposal that would see culture protected by international law. more >
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