Introducing Louise Buckingham from Arts Law, our next speaker for the Horizons Guest Speaker Series. Being in the creative industries can be extremely fun and rewarding but there are times when it important to legally protect yourself, your work and the people you work with. Join this Arts Law session hosted by Horizons and learn more about your rights as a creative, copyright and contracts.

Arts Law is Australia’s independent national community legal center for the arts, a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. They provide free or low cost specialized legal advice, education and resources to Australian artists and arts organizations across all art forms, on a wide range of arts related legal and business matters. Arts Law’s Artists in the Black program delivers targeted services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists nationally.

Louise Buckingham is the newly appointed CEO of the Arts Law Centre of Australia. She is a lawyer and academic who has specialized in intellectual property and human rights and worked in commercial and in-house roles across the corporate and not-for-profit sectors in Sydney, London and California (beginning at Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Sydney, and most recently in the award-winning Tech + IP and Innovation teams at Gilbert + Tobin with several years as the Senior Lawyer at the Australian Copyright Council and an editor of the Copyright Reporter along the way). She is committed to the arts and creators’ rights, and lectures in NSW IP and cultural heritage and ‘art law’ in law, arts and science faculties.

Louise has a PhD (Faculty of Law Award for Excellence), UNSW; an MSC from the London School of Economics, and an LLM and BA(Hons)/LLB(Hons) from the University of Sydney and was admitted to practice in NSW in 2000 and in England and Wales in 2005. She is a committee member (NSW) of IPSANZ and the Trans-Tasman Copyright committee and is a participant member of Australasian Intellectual Property Academics, and IP Teachers conferences.

Horizons: Creative Industries Career Launchpad is a mentoring and professional development program for young creatives across regional NSW. Our 75 participants have been grouped with one of 14 experienced professionals who will have an ongoing and personalised mentoring relationship for the next 7 months.