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 this line of thinking, what value to Australia’s public rights was the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States (signed in 2004)? Equally, Australia should contribute its share to the global pool of content. Exclusive rights should be limited to the protection of expressions only. Issues such as digital rights management (DRM), technical protection measures (TPMs), finding of copyright in datasets all butt up against this idea. Where possible, the term of copyright should be limited. Historically, the term of copyright…
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