On Monday Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay presented a proposal (PDF, Doc) for a treaty that would see the introduction of harmonised copyright exceptions across World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) countries. The proposal, which was tabled at the 18th session ...Read More
Professor Anne Fitzgerald and Neale Hooper from QUT's Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project discussed the impact of Crown copyright in Australia. Crown copyright is a copyright doctrine that has developed in the Commonwealth nations that affords protection to ...Read More
Queensland University of Technology was one of the first institutions in Australia to establish a publicly accessible scholarly research repository. QUT introduced an institution-wide policy for open access in January 2004 which led to the establishment of the ePrints repository. ...Read More
Professor Julie Cohen, Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, gave a presesntation about copyright and creativity. Or more appropriately, copyright is not creativity. At the root of her argument is the claim that copyright law is premised on ...Read More
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 ...Read More
Similar to his presentation at the recent Unlocking IP conference in Sydney on 16 and 17 April 2009, Graham Greenleaf His principles for public right: The future development of public rights should reflect Australia's interest rather than other country's interests. To take ...Read More
I will post about Lawrence Lessig's presentation soon. Read More
All I want to say about the "Copyright History and Prospects" is "What a mammoth session!" Seven very interesting and distinquished speakers managed to span (at least some of) the breadth of the history of copyright. And who thought a ...Read More
Despite the cold and not being a lawyer, Dr Terry Cutler (author of VenturousAustralia, the Review of the National Innovation System) gave a very interesting address on copyright and innovation. I very much chuckled to myself at his analogy of ...Read More
Obviously I am down in Canberra at the Old Parliament House for the ARC Center of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation's Copyright Future – Copyright Freedom conference and I'm attempting some live blogging action. After a warm welcome to ...Read More