The Media & Arts Law Review is seeking submissions for Special Issue 24(2). The theme of this Special Issue is ‘The COVID-19 Pandemic, the Media and the Law’. The COVID-19 pandemic is a once-in-a-generation event. It is already having a significant impact on all aspects of Australian society, including the legal system. The purpose of this Special Issue is to address how the pandemic is affecting those areas of law within the subject matter of the journal: Communications, Contempt, Copyright, Defamation, Digitisation, Entertainment, Free Speech, Intellectual Property, Journalism, Privacy and Public Interest. Authors may wish to consider the following issues: Open justice in the absence of in-person court attendance—see, for example, the Federal Court’s Practice Note: Special Measures in Response to COVID-19 (SMIN-1) (23 March 2020) The use of mobile technology and surveillance to combat the pandemic, and what that means for privacy—see, for example, Snowden’s warning that gov...