Media law
Websites
- WebLaw - Media and Telecommunications
- An excellent and comprehensive site maintained by the National Library of Australia. Here you'll find links to such matters as Australian Legislation, Courts & tribunals and their decisions, Organisations and lots more...
- WorldLII: Australia: Media & Communications
- The World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) has a page of searchable links to media law sites such as the Australian Broadcasting Authority.
- Australasian Legal Information Institute
- AustLII, as it's known, is a huge searchable resource with 187 databases from all Australasian jurisdictions.
- Communications Law Centre
- The Communications Law Centre (CLC) is an independent, non-profit, public interest organisation specialising in Australian media, communications and online law and policy. You'll find a good deal of useful information on their website on topics such as Media ownership, Journalism and media ethics, Film and TV industry and so on.
- Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
- The Department develops and administers legislation relating to communications and information technology. This site provides information about policy and legislation regulating radio and television broadcasting and Internet services, including research, guidelines and reviews.
- Press Law in Australia
- Maintained by the Australian Press Council, the site has 23 sections with information about various aspects of press law.
 Print material
Note: Because Media law is also studied in our Law School, you'll find that some items in the Library Catalogue will be kept in the Law Library, which is a separate Library from the Barr Smith.
Look for Location: Law Books on the Catalogue record.
Remember, too, that the Library's collections of Acts, Statutes, Law Reports, etc. are all kept in the Law Library.
Not sure where to find the Law Library? It's in the Ligertwood Building on the North Terrace Campus; I've made you a map (it will open in a new window) to show you exactly where to go.
The simplest way to find books in the Library on media law is to do a search under the Subject Heading Mass media Law and Legislation, and the subdivision Mass media Law and Legislation Australia.
Journals
- Media and arts law review [paper copy: vol. 1 (1996) onwards]
A quarterly, refereed journal examining all areas of media and arts law, including: Communications, Contempt, Copyright, Cultural Heritage, Defamation, Digitisation, Entertainment, Free Speech, IP, Journalism, Privacy, and the Public Interest.
- Information economics and policy [paper copy: vol.1-7 (1983-1995)]
- Information economics and policy [online: vol.1 (1983) onwards]
An international journal that aims to publish peer-reviewed policy-oriented research about the production, distribution and use of information, including these subjects: the economics of the telecommunications, mass media, and other information industries, the economics of innovation and intellectual property, the role of information in economic development, and the role of information and information technology in the functioning of markets.
- The News Media & The Law [online: Winter 2000 onwards]
A quarterly magazine on all aspects of media law, covering cases, laws and other events that may affect how journalists can cover the news.
- Communications Law Bulletin [online: vol.1 (1981) onwards]
Published by the Communications and Media Law Association which brings together a wide range of people interested in law and policy relating to communications and the media. The Association includes lawyers, journalists, broadcasters, members of the telecommunications industry, politicians, publishers, academics and public servants.
Copyright
- Copyright Act [Australia]
- The legislation itself - but you'll need help interpreting it: not for the fainthearted!
- Australian Copyright Council
- The Australian Copyright Council is an independent not for profit organisation which provides information, advice and training about copyright in Australia. You'll find a lot of information about copyright in Australia on this website, including many information sheets.Their publications include practical guides and discussion papers.
The Australian Copyright Council is assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
- Copyright Agency Limited
- Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) is an Australian copyright management company whose role is to provide a bridge between creators and users of copyright material. CAL represents authors, journalists, visual artists, surveyors, photographers and newspaper, magazine and book publishers as their non-exclusive agent to license the copying of their works to the general community.
- Creative Commons
- Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works. Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. We have built upon the "all rights reserved" concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary "some rights reserved" approach. We're a nonprofit organization. All of our tools are free.
 This page was created and is maintained by Alan Keig
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