March 2nd, 2021 By David Knox 3 commentsFiled under: News,
Screen Australia has announced over $730,000 of development funding for six feature films, 12 television dramas and three online projects.
The television projects include Foxtel jury drama
The Twelve, an adaptation from Bunya Productions of the 2018 film
Ladies In Black;
The Family Doctor, a television drama from Debra Oswald, co-creator of
Offspring.
There is also a project between Mark Fennessy and director Richard Lowenstein; plus director Nicholas Verso, Beck Cole and writer Mithila Gupta.
Screen Australia’s Head of Content Sally Caplan said, “We are impressed by the rigorous creativity of Australian creators and are thrilled to support so many novel ideas coming through the pipeline as the industry continues to rebound from COVID-19. It’s great to see a number of engaging stories set around iconic milestones in Australian history, from the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, to the social change th
Summary
The Federal Court of Australia recently handed down a judgement
which provides some insight into issues surrounding the
enforceability and effect of internet contracts :
Dialogue Consulting Pty Ltd v Instagram, Inc [2020] FCA
1846.
Dialogue is alleging in these proceedings that Instagram has
breached its Terms of Use by excluding Dialogue from access to its
platform. Instagram, which alleges that Dialogue was engaged in
unauthorised data scraping , sought a stay of
proceedings under section 7(2) of the
International Arbitration
Act 1974 (Cth) on the grounds that a version of the Terms of
Use which was originally in place when Dialogue commenced using
Instagram required disputes to be submitted to arbitration.