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Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about copyright issues within government.
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- Copyright - Archive
- A selection of copyright resources.
Added: 2 December 2005
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- Copyright - Australia
- Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to copyright in Australia.
Added: 7 December 2005
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- Copyright - Canada
- Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to copyright issues in Canada.
Added: 12 December 2005
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- Copyright issues within government - United Kingdom - Archive
- Articles and resources about trends and issues in copyright and government.
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- Defence views copyright as barrier to cloud
- By Ry Crozier. IT News, December 19, 2012. "Wants corporations to have 'personal use' rights. The Department of Defence has backed changes to Australian copyright laws to prevent government agencies from being stifled in their adoption of cloud computing. Although it did not currently use cloud services "to any significant extent" for security reasons, the department noted the Federal Government's intention to use cloud services in future..."
Added: 19 December 2012;
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- AFACT argues to keep copyright status quo
- By Josh Taylor. ZDNet, December 4, 2012. "Summary: In a lengthy submission to the review on Australian copyright law, the content industry has argued against changing the Copyright Act to be more flexible in the digital age. While technology companies have broadly called for an overhaul of Australia's copyright law, the content industry has questioned the need for the law to be changed, saying that the law is not stifling technological innovation..."
Added: 6 December 2012;
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- Copyright in the digital age: Australia, ACTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
- Australia's copyright law set to change in the digital environment, by Stephanie McDonald (Techworld Australia). Computerworld. 13 April, 2012. "In February this year, Attorney-General Nicola Roxon announced the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) would conduct an inquiry into copyright law to make sure it was keeping pace with the digital age. The inquiry was initially flagged by former Attorney-General Robert McLelland in 2011..."
Added: 18 April 2012;
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- ALRC to review Copyright Act
- Inquiry will determine if the Act's exceptions need to be changed for the digital age, by Hamish Barwick. Computerworld, 8 February, 2012. "The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has decided to conduct a review into the use of copyright in a digital setting. The inquiry will consider whether the exceptions in the Federal Copyright Act 1968, which was amended in 2006, are adequate and appropriate in the digital environment. These exceptions include fair dealing and private copying when time-shifting or for special purposes..."
Added: 9 February 2012;
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- Lawmakers Propose Alternative to Stop Online Piracy Act
- Eleven lawmakers call for the U.S. International Trade Commission to investigate copyright infringement complaints, By Grant Gross. CIO, December 2, 2011. "... The draft proposal, unveiled Friday, would allow the ITC to issue cease-and-desist orders to foreign websites that willfully engage in copyright infringement, supporters said. The ITC already investigates patent infringement complaints and can bar infringing products from being imported into the U.S..."
Added: 5 December 2011;
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- Govt cuts 'streamlined' piracy discussion
- By Josh Taylor, ZDNet Australia, October 17, 2011. "The Department of the Attorney-General has inexplicably removed a section from its latest copyright discussion paper that had referred to a proposed "streamlined" process for copyright holders to access information about alleged copyright infringers. The new five-page discussion paper (PDF), put up on the department's website over the weekend, now just refers to expanding the Safe Harbour provisions in the Telecommunications Act, which provide legal incentives to carriers to cooperate with copyright holders seeking to deter copyright infringement..."
Added: 17 October 2011;
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- Court rules Internet IP addresses are not people
- By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. ZDNet Networking Blog, May 4, 2011. "... a U.S. District Court has ruled that an IP address is not the same thing as a person's identification. This current decision came about because of a recent wave of copyright owners filing approximately 100,000 lawsuits against file sharers based on their IP addresses..."
Added: 11 May 2011;
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- White House calls for stricter copyright laws, greater enforcement authority
- By Josh Smith, National Journal. NextGov, 15 March 2011. "The Obama Administration is calling for greater law enforcement authority and tougher penalties, including prison in some cases, for people convicted of copyright infringement. The White House's Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Victoria Espinel, submitted 20 recommendations to Congress on Tuesday aimed at cracking down on copyright infringement on items ranging from drugs to music and military equipment..."
Added: 17 March 2011;
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- Finance comments on draft open licensing guidelines
- By Peter Alexander - AGIMO Blog, 9 March 2011. "A few weeks ago, the Attorney-General's Department (AGD) used a guest post on this blog to seek feedback on draft public sector information(PSI) licensing guidelines for Australian Government agencies. The new guidelines will play an important role in helping agencies adopt open licences to encourage reuse of PSI. When an agency releases this kind of policy document, it’s standard practice for other agencies to provide comments. These comments tend to reflect that fact that different agencies will have slightly different perspectives based on their functions or areas of expertise. AGIMO, as a business group of the Department of Finance and Deregulation, contributed to Finance’s response to the AGD draft PSI licensing guidelines..."
Added: 10 March 2011;
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- Guest post: Comment sought on draft public sector information licensing guidelines
- By Helen Daniels - Attorney-General's Department. AGIMO Blog, 1 February 2011. "AGD are in the process of drafting guidelines to assist Government agencies in making licensing decisions about adopting Creative Commons or other open licences. The draft guidelines are available for download here on the AGIMO Blog... submissions by close of business 21 February 2011..."
Added: 17 February 2011;
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- CC & Government Guide: Using Creative Commons 3.0 Australia Licences on Government Copyright Materials
- by Anne M Fitzgerald, Neale Hooper, and Cheryl Foong. Queensland University of Technology, 25 November 2010. "This guide explains how copyright law applies to Australian government material, how copyright can be managed to facilitate beneficial open access practices by government, how CC licences can be used to achieve open access to government material, and provides practical step-by-step guidance for agencies and their officers on licensing and use of government copyright materials under CC 3.0 Australia licences..."
Added: 9 December 2010;
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- New Zealand edges closer to three strikes
- By Juha Saarinen. IT News, November 3, 2010. "Internet activists and minor parties in New Zealand have slammed a decision by the two major parties to include a clause within a new law that - if effected - would see internet subscribers disconnected when found to have downloaded copyright-protected material. The New Zealand Parliamentary Commerce Select Committee has made substantial changes to the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing Amendment) Bill, New Zealand's Commerce Minister Simon Power announced today..."
Added: 4 November 2010;
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- Government 2.0 update - amended IP principles released
- By Ann Steward - AGIMO Blog, 7 October 2010. "Last Friday, in response to both the Government 2.0 Taskforce recommendations and the Review of the Australian Government's Use of Information and Communication Technology, the Attorney-General’s Department has released the amended Statement of Intellectual Property Principles for Australian Government Agencies. This is a formal endorsement of the taskforce recommendation that agencies should license their Public Sector Information (PSI) under Creative Commons BY license as the default license type and only adopt more restrictive licenses after a process of 'due diligence and on a case-by-case basis'..."
Added: 8 October 2010;
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- Australian Government sets default copyright to Creative Commons by Attribution
- eGov AU - Craig Thomler's professional blog - eGovernment and Gov 2.0 thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective, Friday, October 8, 2010. "Yesterday was a historic day for Australian intellectual property rights. Ann Stewart, the Australian Government CIO, announced that the Australian Attorney-General's Department had released an amended Statement of Intellectual Property Principles for Australian Government Agencies. The amended version endorsed one of the Gov 2.0 Taskforce's recommendations - that the default copyright position for public sector information be CC BY rather than the existing Crown Copyright, which has been in place for over a hundred years..."
Added: 8 October 2010;
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- ISP definition in Copyright Bill under fire
- Submissions reveal range of concerns, By Stephen Bell - Wellington. Computerworld, Tuesday, 24 August, 2010. "Submissions to the Commerce select committee on the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Bill show there is still considerable concern that the Bill's definition of an internet service provider (ISP) could be too wide, capturing universities, libraries and other businesses that provide internet access to employees or customers..."
Added: 25 August 2010;
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