The Australian Writers’ Guild and Australian Writers’ Guild Authorship Collecting Society (AWGACS) commend the European Parliament on their vote last week to adopt the EU Copyright Directive, a move that will see the rights of authors, artists and composers to receive proportionate remuneration for the use of their work defined under European copyright law. The vote…
Continue readingCJZ addresses drama budgets, shortage of writers and original concepts, in which CJZ claimed that high production and development costs and the lack of Australian writing talent were making it more and more difficult to create Australian drama. ‘There are work practices which make it impossible to make drama at the price it should be…
Continue readingThe Australian Writers’ Guild visited Canberra last week to urge federal politicians from all parties to support the The delegation first attended an afternoon tea with the Labor caucus in Parliament House hosted by Labor MP Tony Burke. An informal panel where the caucus heard from actor Deborah Mailman, director Gillian Armstrong, production designer and…
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Continue readingOn 22 January 2018, The Australian published an article from the incoming CEO of Free TV Australia Bridget Fair, who likened Australian children’s content on commercial television to the brussels sprouts of a child’s dinner. This is yet another example of Australian commercial broadcasters’ self-serving efforts to claw back the already derisory amount of money they spend…
Continue readingToday, AWG will join with some of the giants of Australian film and TV to descend upon Parliament House in Canberra to directly lobby politicians to support the industry’s future and the Make It Australian campaign. Representing AWG, writer Katherine Thomson and writer-actor-director Leah Purcell will join actors Bryan Brown, Sigrid Thornton and Matt Day, directors…
Continue readingParliamentary Inquiry into the growth and sustainability of the film and television industry AWG submission – Growth & Sustainability Inquiry 20170331. Other publicly available submissions can be found at:
Continue readingRecommendations by the Federal Government’s Productivity Commission to cut copyright protection in Australia would have a devastating impact on the nation’s screenwriters and other authors .Jacqueline Elaine, Executive Director of the Australian Writers’ Guild said the draft recommendations – that include slashing the length of time copyright protects an author’s work from 70 years to…
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