Wednesday, 11 March 2026
Chair
Janine Lapworth, Legal Consultant
One Year On: Producer Offset, Division 376, and AAT Appeals
- Key updates and developments in the Producer Offset and Division 376 over the past year
- Navigating QAPE assessments and common contracting pitfalls
- The evolving roles of Screen Australia and the PDV Office in offset administration
Presented by Janine Pearce, Principal, JP Media Law
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Presenters
Janine Lapworth, Legal ConsultantJanine Lapworth is a Senior Consultant with extensive experience in corporate, commercial, intellectual property, and entertainment law. She has worked at national and international law firms, as well as in senior in-house legal positions at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and ESPN Star Sports. Janine advises a diverse range of clients, including international studios, industry groups, tech start-ups, and creative businesses, focusing on areas such as television production, distribution, publishing, and general IP contracting.
Janine Pearce, Principal, JP Media Law
Janine practiced in the areas of tax, securities and mergers+acquisitions for 6 years at the New York and Tokyo offices of Cleary Gottlieb. Thereafter, she worked at Showtime Networks in New York, where she managed television distribution contracts and advised on advertising, antitrust, copyright and trademark law. In 1998, she moved to Australia and worked at the Film Finance Corporation (predecessor to Screen Australia) in Sydney advising on investments in feature films and television drama until 2006. She subsequently joined an entertainment boutique firm helmed by Nina Stevenson. Since 2008 she has operated a sole practice, JP Media Law + Consulting, where she represents creators, financiers and producers and advises on all aspects of contract and copyright law, financing and distribution. She is qualified to practice in Australia and the United States. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgetown University and a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia University School of Law.
