AWG and AWGACS were encouraged to receive overwhelming support for their case for fair remuneration from the international association Writers & Directors Worldwide (WDW).WDW gave its wholehearted backing to the AWG and AWGACS in both their battle for fairness against Screenrights and their oppo...
More THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL. WE ARE TAKING WAITLIST BOOKINGS ONLY.This day-long workshop begins with a specific brief: to create a new television show for a specific network and timeslot. Then, over the course of a day, you’ll be a part of a small group writers’ room run by an experienced industry pro...
More Australia’s stage and screen writers are being urged to defend their livelihoods, currently being threatened by proposed changes to copyright laws.The AWG believes that draft recommendations by the Federal Government’s Productivity Commission to cut copyright protection in Australia would have a dev...
More The Australian Writers’ Guild will continue to fight for its members’ rights, the Guild’s President Jan Sardi has pledged.In his annual report to the 2016 AWG Annual General Meeting in Sydney, Jan said that 2015 had been a good year for the Guild, though the challenges keep coming.“But as history wi...
More The AWG Authorship Collecting Society in 2015 had its biggest year ever, collecting more than $2-million for Australian performance writers.In his annual report, AWGACS Chairman Tim Pye also said that – coupled with affirmative action in placing the importance of secondary royalties firmly in the pu...
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