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Writers’ Entitlement to Superannuation

Screen Producers Australia (SPA) has issued a Fact Sheet on writers and superannuation.  SPA has argued that production companies are merely purchasing a writer’s intellectual property in a script, and that they are not engaging writers to “perform services” i.e. writing services. We do not consider this argument to be a sound one.  The characterisation of writing contracts in this…

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