Copyright and Privacy Policy

Conditions of Enrolment, Copyright and Privacy Policy

Conditions of Enrolment 

• Tuition fees are presented as a whole TERM FEE and must be paid in entirety in advance of each term.
• The total tuition fee must be settled by the due date. Direct deposit, credit, cash and cheques acceptable. 
• Failure to pay the tuition fee by the due date will result in suspended lessons and/or cancellation of lessons with the entirety of the fee still payable as well as an additional late fee.
• Tuition fees may be exclusive of GST, which will be added upon invoicing.
• If a student is unable to attend tuition due to illness or otherwise, parents must inform teacher directly.
• If a student is absent from class a lesson fee is still incurred; the lesson is not rescheduled, credited or deducted from term fees; refunds are not applicable.
• If a teacher is unable to hold a class a substitute teacher will be arranged.
• Private tuition lessons scheduled on public holidays and pupil-free days are still taught, as timetabled unless otherwise specified.
• Minimum commitment for enrolment is at least one term.
• 14 days (term-time) notice is required for cancellation of enrolment.
• Studio Director, Marianna Psaltis must be given at least 14 days (term time) prior written notice if the parents/guardians wish to terminate an enrolment.
• If enrolment is discontinued mid-term the entire term’s fees are still payable without refund.
• Fees are not refundable under any circumstance.
• Brisbane Acting and Drama is not obligated to provide refunds or alternative credits under any circumstance.
• Teachers reserve the right to reschedule classes when attending rehearsals, performances and eisteddfods.
• Students must work towards performance goals.
• A teacher’s decision on performance pieces is final.
• Students who wish to perform duologues must be enrolled in a paired lesson.
• Students who wish to enter exams must be enrolled for a full semester in private tuition.
• Parents, guardians and students acknowledge and consent to photography and filming of lessons and performances for publication, advertising and social media purposes.
• Parents, guardians, family members or friends are not permitted to attend or observe group classes or remain on the premises while class is in session.
• Parents and guardians of children in private tuition whose class is in session are permitted to wait quietly in the foyer.
• Students must be dropped off and picked up from class on time; staff will not be held responsible for supervising children outside of regular scheduled class times.
• Students must provide a water bottle and display folder for class.
• Students and parents are responsible for the safe return of any borrowed materials; failure to do so will result in additional fees.
• All performance pieces provided to students are subject to Brisbane Acting and Drama Copyright Policy; failure to comply may result in termination of enrolment and/or infringement notice and fines.
• Any literature, documents, class plans, teaching material, outlines spoken and written are not permitted for use unless given in writing by studio director, Marianna Psaltis
• Students are not permitted to perform or use Brisbane Acting and Drama learning materials at non-studio events without permission.
• Parents, guardians and students must give written notice of any concerns regarding teachers, classes and Brisbane Acting and Drama to the studio Director, Marianna Psaltis as soon as they become aware of them.
• Students and parents will behave in an appropriate manner at all times at the studio, performance venues and eisteddfods.
• Students are expected to behave in a manner that respects the rights of others, be cooperative with staff and others in authority at all times.
• Parents are expected to support Brisbane Acting and Drama staff in maintaining a safe and respectful learning environment.
• Students must be punctual to lessons, rehearsals and performances. Failure to arrive on time may result in exclusion.
• All students must have their vaccinations up to date. The Director, Marianna Psaltis must be notified by parents or guardians if a child is not currently immunised.
• Parents, guardians and students acknowledge that Brisbane Acting and Drama may hold or attend activities outside the class grounds (including performance venues and eisteddfods both in Australia and overseas) and accepts all risk to the student’s health and of injury or death that may result from such participation and releases Brisbane Acting and Drama from any and all liability, loss, personal injury, damage to property or claims or causes of action that may arise as a result of such participation, except to the extent caused by negligence by Brisbane Acting and Drama.
• In the event of a minor injury to a student first aid will be administered where applicable.
• In the event of a serious incident every effort will be made to contact the parents or guardians and should they not be contactable parents or guardians authorise Brisbane Acting and Drama to arrange for necessary medical attention. Any resultant expense is the responsibility of the parents.
• Parents or guardians of students who have allergies must provide a medical action plan as well as any medications.
• Students, parents and guardians must abide by the conditions of enrolment at all times; failure to do so may result in termination of enrolment.
• It is the responsibility of parents/guardians to read all communications from Brisbane Acting and Drama.
• All persons who enter the studio must abide by our COVID19 safe plan.
• All persons who enter the studio must abide by government COVID19 regulations.
• Parodically students may be referred to professional organisations, casting agents and directors at which time Brisbane Acting and Drama may charge commission or referral fee may apply at industry standard rates.
• All students who are referred by the studio or receive audition advice/casting calls and receive work, screen credits and/or renumeration may incur an agent’s fees.
• Students, parents, staff and all parties associated with Brisbane Acting and Drama have a duty to uphold the ethos of the studio at all times on and off campus.
• Studio ethos requires patrons to act in a respectful way at all times and promote an environment of inclusivity, reciprocal respect and decorum.
• Contravention of the conditions of enrolment may result in exclusion.
• Enrolment is ongoing until cancelled in writing or the calendar year ends.

In addition to our conditions of enrolment, patrons including parents, guardians and students, staff and visitors must abide by our copyright and privacy policy.

Copyright

• All patrons must not share our work without our express permission
• Our work pertains to all materials, physical, written and spoken
• Work must not be shared without our permission in any capacity at any time without our acknowledgement and permission
• Brisbane Acting and Drama retains the legal ownership of any and all work produced, created, formed and or performed, written, spoken or performed
• All work produced by patrons including staff and students belongs to Brisbane Acting and Drama
• Brisbane Acting and Drama reserves the right to intervene when issues arise
• Permission must be granted, in writing by Studio Director, Marianna Psaltis for her personal work to be used in any capacity
• Brisbane Acting and Drama and Marianna Psaltis expressly deny their permission for their work to be used in any capacity without express, written permission extending to academic written, spoken and performance work of any kind
• Brisbane Acting and Drama reserves the right to withdraw their consent of use of work at any time, without notice
• Brisbane Acting and Drama and Marianna Psaltis reserve the right to pursue legal pathways to recover work or royalties and renumeration including compensation for work used without permission
• Brisbane Acting and Drama Pty Ltd and Marianna Psaltis accept no responsibility for contraventions to the above-mentioned rules, studio ethos or third party agent’s regulations. Infringements may apply to patrons found in contravention including fines, exclusion and legal action.

Copyright and Performance Permissions

Our studio holds two copyright licences which enable our students to perform licenced, published and unpublished work at authorised events.  There are stipulations to these policies including length/duration, author, digital and in-person performances.

Copyright and performance permissions are mandatory at every performance. Depending on the performance type, venue and eisteddfod rules, cert

Written permission must be expressly granted by Studio Director, Marianna Psaltis for students to perform her work including written and spoken texts, choreography, plays and academic prose.

Brisbane Acting and Drama expressly denies permission for students to perform work at unauthorised events.  In the event that a student wishes to perform work learned at the studio at an ‘out of studio event’, permission must be requested in writing and granted prior to performance otherwise infringements may apply from our studio or outside agencies.

Brisbane Acting and Drama takes no responsibility for unauthorised performances and performers who are infringed as a result of contravening our or our agent’s policies.

Brisbane Acting and Drama is defined as the company and trust.

Patrons are defined by all who attend the studio in any capacity including parents, guardians, staff, students, visitors in any capacity.

What is Copyright

Copyright protects the original way in which facts or ideas are expressed, for example in writing, source code, a drawing, painting or photograph. Copyright does not protect the facts or ideas themselves. Nor does it protect names (e.g. geographical names, family names) or slogans, for example, promotional campaigns).

To be protected by copyright, material/subject matter must be original and in material form (i.e. written down or recorded, not just an abstract thought or idea). Copyright covers materials created both in hard copy and electronic format.

Copyright does not protect ideas, so it does not prevent the independent creation by another person of an expression of a similar idea. For example, if you and another person both write an original essay about the same topic, copyright protects both essays.

The Copyright Act 1968 (Cwlth) (Copyright Act) divides copyright into:

• literary works, such as books, articles, scripts and poems, and compilations, such as databases and directories
• artistic works, such as photographs, paintings, sculptures, maps and plans (Note: ‘Artistic’ for the purposes of copyright is just the title of the category. It does not imply an aesthetic quality. For example, for the purpose of copyright, there is no difference between a work by a critically acclaimed artist, such as Picasso, and that of a novice)
• dramatic and musical works
• subject matter other than works, including films, broadcasts, sound recordings and multimedia; and published editions (i.e. typographical arrangement of the work that is separate from the content of the work reproduced).

Copyright Protection

To be protected by copyright, the subject matter must be original and in material form (i.e. written down or recorded). Protection is automatic and copyright exists:

• for literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works—when it is first written down or reduced to material form. For example, handwritten text, drawing, painting, typing text in a Microsoft Word document, recording on a disc
• for a cinematograph film—when all the necessary things have been done for the production of the first copy of the film
• for a sound or television broadcast—when the broadcast is made from a place in Australia.

Duration of copyright

The duration of copyright protection for literary, dramatic and artistic works is generally the life of the creator plus 70 years. Other rules may apply, depending on the subject matter such as films, sound recordings and multimedia.

Privacy Policy

Brisbane Acting and Drama Pty Ltd is committed to providing quality services to you and this policy outlines our ongoing obligations to you in respect of how we manage your Personal Information.

We have adopted the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act). The NPPs govern the way in which we collect, use, disclose, store, secure and dispose of your Personal Information.

A copy of the Australian Privacy Principles may be obtained from the website of The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at https://www.oaic.gov.au/.

• Brisbane Acting and Drama collects personal information and data for enrolment, billing and communication purposes.
• This information can be shared with companies, eisteddfods, performances and copyright agencies and other entities upon retrieval and enrolment
• Brisbane Acting and Drama will not knowingly provide personal or sensitive information to a third party for financial benefit or gain

What is Personal Information and why do we collect it?

Personal Information is information or an opinion that identifies an individual. Examples of Personal Information we collect includes names, addresses, email addresses, phone and facsimile numbers.

This Personal Information is obtained in many ways including [interviews, correspondence, by telephone and facsimile, by email, via our website www.brisbaneactinganddrama.com.au, from your website, from media and publications, from other publicly available sources, from cookies- delete all that aren’t applicable] and from third parties. We don’t guarantee website links or policy of authorised third parties.

We collect your Personal Information for the primary purpose of providing our services to you, providing information to our clients and marketing. We may also use your Personal Information for secondary purposes closely related to the primary purpose, in circumstances where you would reasonably expect such use or disclosure. You may unsubscribe from our mailing/marketing lists at any time by contacting us in writing.

When we collect Personal Information we will, where appropriate and where possible, explain to you why we are collecting the information and how we plan to use it.

Sensitive Information

Sensitive information is defined in the Privacy Act to include information or opinion about such things as an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political association, religious or philosophical beliefs, membership of a trade union or other professional body, criminal record or health information.

Sensitive information will be used by us only:

• For the primary purpose for which it was obtained
• For a secondary purpose that is directly related to the primary purpose
• With your consent; or where required or authorised by law.

Third Parties

Where reasonable and practicable to do so, we will collect your Personal Information only from you. However, in some circumstances we may be provided with information by third parties. In such a case we will take reasonable steps to ensure that you are made aware of the information provided to us by the third party.

Disclosure of Personal Information

Your Personal Information may be disclosed in a number of circumstances including the following:

• Third parties where you consent to the use or disclosure; and
• Where required or authorised by law.

Security of Personal Information

Your Personal Information is stored in a manner that reasonably protects it from misuse and loss and from unauthorized access, modification or disclosure.

When your Personal Information is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was obtained, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify your Personal Information. However, most of the Personal Information is or will be stored in client files which will be kept by us for a minimum of 7 years.

Access to your Personal Information

You may access the Personal Information we hold about you and to update and/or correct it, subject to certain exceptions. If you wish to access your Personal Information, please contact us in writing.

Brisbane Acting and Drama Pty Ltd will not charge any fee for your access request, but may charge an administrative fee for providing a copy of your Personal Information.

In order to protect your Personal Information we may require identification from you before releasing the requested information.

Maintaining the Quality of your Personal Information

It is an important to us that your Personal Information is up to date. We will  take reasonable steps to make sure that your Personal Information is accurate, complete and up-to-date. If you find that the information we have is not up to date or is inaccurate, please advise us as soon as practicable so we can update our records and ensure we can continue to provide quality services to you.

Policy Updates

This Policy may change from time to time and is available on our website.

Privacy Policy Complaints and Enquiries

If you have any queries or complaints about our Privacy Policy please contact us at:

Brisbane Acting and Drama

13/301 Old Cleveland Road, Coorparoo, 4152

brisbaneactinganddrama@gmail.com

0402 235 322