Australia’s libraries and archives will have the same legal protections as commercial ISPs when they provide online services to the public, thanks to copyright amendments passed today.
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20 June 2018
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25 August 2017
Australians will have better access to orphan works and government funded research under commitments made by the Government in its response to the Productivity Commission’s IP Inquiry, released 25 August 2017.
The Inquiry report, which was released to the public late last year, called for important changes to update our copyright system for the digital age. These include:
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15 June 2017
Librarians and archivists all over the country can hang up their aprons after successfully cooking their way to copyright reform.
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22 March 2017
Captain Cook’s diaries and Jane Austen’s letters will finally be freely available to all the world thanks to an important copyright bill introduced to Parliament today.
Australia’s libraries and archives are elated at the tabling of the Copyright Amendment (Disability Access and Other Measures) Bill. The Bill includes a number of important and overdue amendments that will dramatically free up how Australians can access and use copyright material.
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