Media Law: Websites

The Australian Press Council is responsible for promoting good standards of media practice, community access to information of public interest, and freedom of expression through the media. The Council is the principal body with responsibility for responding to complaints about Australian newspapers, magazines and associated digital outlets.

Links to the various codes of pactice, broadcasting and privacy laws, and journalism discussion sites in Australia and elsewhere.

EFA was set up to protect and promote the civil liberties of users of computer based communications systems such as the Internet, to advocate the amendment of laws and regulations in Australia and elsewhere (both current and proposed) which restrict free speech and to educate the community at large about the social, political, and civil liberties issues involved in the use of computer based communications systems.

This University of Pittsburgh Law School site provides free acces updated Australian legal news from newspapers, the Attorney-General, the High Court and other sources.

The DMLP works to ensure that individuals and organizations involved in online journalism and digital media have access to the legal resources, education, tools, and representation that they need

The International Media Lawyers Association is an international network of lawyers working in the areas of media law, media freedom and media policy, and committed to promoting and defending the fundamental human rights of freedom of expression and freedom of information.

Links to worldwide freedom of information sites, professional journalistic codes of practice and websites concerned with human rights

International treaties and customary law form the backbone of international human rights law and the Commission is principal human rights official of the United Nations. This site gives access to treaties, declarations and regulations

WIPO is the global forum for intellectual property services, policy, information and cooperation, This includes WIPO Lex for IP laws, patents, trademarks, patents and genetic resources as well as the services of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center.