Media Law for Non-Lawyers

The first edition of Media Law for Non-Lawyers was published in September 1992 and sold out its entire 10,000 print run in eight months. We clearly needed a guide to navigate the jungle of legislation and complex legal documentation confronting us. I suppose it helped that it was written in plain English accompanied with a few cartoons and jokes.

Since then, many media guidebooks have been published for other countries (USA, UK, France and Italy) but not here. A thoroughly updated second edition of Media Law for Non-Lawyers was called for, especially in this country, when in 2008 a completely different film subsidy mechanism (Producer Offset tax scheme) was introduced and overseen by Screen Australia, which was established at the same time (merging the Film Finance Corporation with the Australian Film Commission).