Canberra, Australia - 2019 will be a golden year for culture and learning in Australia. As of 1 January millions of items from our national collections - from Captain Cook’s carrot marmalade recipe and Henry Lawson’s letters to war posters and theses - will fall out of copyright for the first time, finally becoming free for all to use.
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27 December 2018
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20 June 2018
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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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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