This book explores the relationship between law and creative practice, or more particularly, how creative practices can be shaped by law.

Not a ‘law book’ in the usual sense, Creative Practice and the Law has been written with a non-legal audience in mind. Drawing on key principles of the law to provide ‘basics’ that can be used to guide creators in their use of content, the book shows why the law may affect their practice, rather than describing or instructing on the law itself. It includes an overview of the legal landscape - legal method, approach and system – to provide a background as to why the law affects creators as it does.

Table of contents:

Ch1. What’s Law Got To Do With Me? Creative practice, the Law, and the story of a blue dot.
Ch2. LAW + LORE – law, lawyers and the legal system In Australia
Ch3. No, you have breached plagiarism laws: Copyright, Moral rights, Performer’s rights and creative practice
Ch4. Don’t think you can have designs on me, pass me off, or trade me in: Trademarks, Passing off, Designs, and creative practice
Ch5. You stole my idea/my personality/my privacy: breach of confidence, privacy and creative practice
Ch6. How can people be so unkind? Defamation and creative practice
Ch7. Curbing content I: classification, obscenity, and sedition
Ch8. Curbing content II: TV, radio, the Internet and the phone

Reviews

•  Abstract: SA Law Society Bulletin, Sep 2007 - 1,018.75 KB
•  Review: NAVA Quarterly, Dec 2007 - 9.11 KB