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In the Chamber – Proposals on dealing with some of the issues in copyright

Posted on May 27th, 2009

Peter Coroneos A case for a review of the current safeharbour provisions. As part of the FTA Australia had to amend the Copyright Act to harmonise it with the US law. The version of safeharbour that was introduced as a result of the FTA is more limited than that which exists in the DMCA. Division 2AA is designed to protect content sites from the extent of the authorisation provisions. There is a degree of certainty in the US that doesn’t opperate in Australia. Entities such as universities, portals and social networks are outside the scope of the carriage service providers within Division 2AA. We are paying more for broadband than we should and we are subjected to data caps. The three strikes proposal is…

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Tagged: Ben Atkinson, collecting societies, Copyright Future conference, Copyright Tribunal, Creative Commons, Delia Browne, Dr Matthew Rimmer, jessica coates, nic suzor, Peter Black, peter coroneos, Prof Adrian Sterling, Robert Cunningham, US-Aus Free Trade Agreement

CCau Update :: Towards CCau Version 3.0

Posted on June 16th, 2008

Last week CC Australia (finally) released the public drafts of our proposed version 3.0 update to the Australian licences. This will bring the Australian jurisdictional licences up to date with the international standard. Why the need for consultation if we’re just moving up to the international standard you ask? Well as I’ve argued before, the concept of open access should be more than a legal mechanism to facilitate access to content that would otherwise be unaccessible under traditional copyright systems. This is important, but to enhance its utility, open content licensing systems should also be accessible to everyone; in the sense that anyone should be able to read them and make sense of them. That’s what we’re going for with the proposed Australian 3.0 licences.…

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Tagged: CC 3.0 Australia licences, consultation, jessica coates

ACIA: Furthering the Commons in Asia

Posted on January 25th, 2008

Jessica Coates has been in Taiwan just recently to attend the International Workshop on Asia and Commons in the Information Age held by CC Taiwan. She hasn’t gotten back to the office yet because she’s speaking at conferences in New Zealand and Melbourne, but I am sure we’ll get a full update when she’s back. Keep your eye on the CCau website. I should have blogged about the workshop earlier, but the CCau office is as busy as always. But I should also take this time to mention a project we undertook as part of the Workshop. As a part of our CC mapping exercise to showcase the use of Creative Commons in Australia and around the world, we produced the Asia and the…

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Tagged: Asia and the Commons booklet, CC mapping, CC Taiwan, ccAustralia publications, CCi research centre, Following Alexis West, jessica coates, Moshang, NLA Picture Australia, Pig Head Skin, rachel cobcroft, Sony eyeVio