Last week, the ACCC published its preliminary report in its Digital Platforms Inquiry. After many years of working in the “content space”, it was refreshing to read the ACCC’s description…
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission yesterday published the Preliminary Report arising from its year long inquiry into Digital Platforms. The Preliminary Report deals a blow to major digital platforms…
In a world first, Parliament has today passed the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Act 2018 which extends Australia’s site blocking regime to cover search engines such as Google. It also makes…
When one talks about the Government and copyright, it is usually about Government copyright policy. However, the Government is actually a large owner and consumer of copyright material. Government ownership…
Copyright matters in Australia have traditionally been litigated in the Federal Court of Australia. This has continued to be the case, even though the Federal Circuit Court of Australia (or…
In early October, the Minister for Communications and the Arts gave a speech entitled The internet – not an ungoverned space. In that speech, he said : There’s a clear…
Legislative reform takes time. This is not something that is unique to copyright policy. One only needs to look at the history of the manage equality debate in Australia to…
Service Providers Bill It has become traditional for the Australian Government to shower us with seasonal gifts in the shape of copyright policy reform packages. 2017 was no different, with…