The Copyright Amendment Act 2006 included exceptions making it legal to format shift our movies and music in Australia – eg. could legally copy our CDs to our MP3 players or iPods, tape television to watch later on etc. The Attorney General’s department has to review the exceptions in the Act after two years.  This [...]

Just seen on Senator Andrew Bartlett’s blog: Copyright Bill passes Senate. The senator points to this blog: Weatherall’s Law, for more detail and commentary on the amendments. Related post: Australia’s impending copyright laws.

The Internet Industry Assocation has written a news release entitled “New Copyright Laws Risk Criminalising Everyday Australians“. They’ve also released some risk analyses for teenagers, families, small business and industry. I’m a liberal person and I’m not all too happy about these new copyright laws, despite the new freedoms that academic institutions (and thus academic [...]

I’m always looking for information about copyright. How it protects the rights of the authors/creators of a work and how encouraging people to do the “right thing” can be achieved. I think the next iteration of the Copyright Act in Australia could well prove a bit more challenging than my poor understanding of it all [...]