Monday, May 15, 2006
No fair use for Australian copyright law ... but some broader specific exceptions and some significant lashings of enforcement
Over the past 12 months, Australia has been going through a major review of its copyright law, and in particular, its exceptions to copyright infringement, with a view to 'updating' this material for the digital environment. Yesterday, the Attorney-General announced that the government has decided not to adopt the US 'fair use' system - where a broadly worded defence must be assessed on a case-by-case basis. Instead, the government will expand, and amend, existing specific exceptions in Australian law. We will get specific exceptions for some private copying, and some other exceptions like fair dealing for parody/satire.
My detailed comments were posted yesterday: click here for the full post.
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