Almost half the nation’s musicians are earning less than $15,000 a year in an industry where underpayment and broken contracts are rife, and the emergence of artificial intelligence is threatening the future viability of work.
Fresh data released by Musicians Australia, a division of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), has detailed the widespread exploitation of professional musicians by ...
The MEAA welcomes new Australian content requirements for major streaming services, describing the announcement as a vital lifeline for the screen industry.
This decisive action by the federal government marks a critical turning point for the Australian screen sector, which has been left vulnerable in the face of a dramatic downturn in local production.
New rules requiring major streaming services to ensure ...
This submission to the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee Inquiry provides feedback on potential tax reform measures to boost the productivity of Australia’s arts and creative sectors and on the opportunities and challenges for Australia’s arts and creative sectors associated with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.
...The Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance welcomes the announcement by the Federal Government that Australian law will not be watered down to permit free access to Australian creative works.
MEAA Chief Executive Erin Madeley said this was a major win in the campaign to stop AI theft and force big tech to pay up for the theft of creative work happening ...
The Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance joins with media colleagues in Australia and Timor-Leste to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the ‘Balibo Five’.
Greg Shackleton, Gary Cunningham, Tony Stewart, Malcolm Rennie, and Brian Peters were killed by Indonesian forces in the village of Balibo on October 16, 1975, after witnessing an incursion.
The New South Wales Coroner subsequently found that the journalists, ...
