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 country by Ruth Bell and a short address about the politics of the balance between creator’s rights and public access by the Attorney-General, the Honourable Robert McClelland. My boss, Professor Brian Fitzgerald, introduced the conference to it’s central theme: that perhaps the future of copyright is not the permissions culture of regulation, control and barriers but the facilitation of access to content. As Brian has outlined before, the digital era provides unprecedented opportunity for the production and dissemination of informational and creative content. He…
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