Future Copyright? – Thoughts on the opening sessions of Copyright Future
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...
View ArticleSeven speakers talk through the history of copyright
All I want to say about the “Copyright History and Prospects” is “What a mammoth session!” Seven very interesting and distinquished speakers managed to span (at least some of) the breadth of the...
View ArticleLessig’s war on the war on piracy
I will post about Lawrence Lessig’s presentation soon.
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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...
View ArticleIn the Chamber – Proposals on dealing with some of the issues in copyright
Peter Coroneos A case for a review of the current safeharbour provisions. As part of the FTA Australia had to amend the Copyright Act to harmonise it with the US law. The version of safeharbour that...
View ArticleThe Magic Pudding Public Domain
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...
View ArticleFuture Copyright? – Thoughts on the opening sessions of Copyright Future
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...
View ArticleSeven speakers talk through the history of copyright
All I want to say about the “Copyright History and Prospects” is “What a mammoth session!” Seven very interesting and distinquished speakers managed to span (at least some of) the breadth of the...
View ArticleLessig’s war on the war on piracy
I will post about Lawrence Lessig’s presentation soon.
View ArticleAnother slice of the magic pudding public domain?
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...
View ArticleIn the Chamber – Proposals on dealing with some of the issues in copyright
Peter Coroneos A case for a review of the current safeharbour provisions. As part of the FTA Australia had to amend the Copyright Act to harmonise it with the US law. The version of safeharbour that...
View ArticleCopyright is not creativity
Professor Julie Cohen, Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, gave a presesntation about copyright and creativity. Or more appropriately, copyright is not creativity. At the root of her...
View ArticleBeing open to access
Queensland University of Technology was one of the first institutions in Australia to establish a publicly accessible scholarly research repository. QUT introduced an institution-wide policy for open...
View ArticleCopyright in government information
Professor Anne Fitzgerald and Neale Hooper from QUT’s Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project discussed the impact of Crown copyright in Australia. Crown copyright is a copyright doctrine that has...
View ArticleProductivity Commission opts to drop parallel importation restrictions
Just a quick note to say that the Productivity Commission has released their report on the current restrictions on parallel importation of books under the Copyright Act 1968. Information on the scope...
View ArticleCreative Commons: Fair to share?
I just read Lisa Dempster’s Neon Pilgrim. I’m generally not into backpack-lit, but Lisa’s conversational confessional approach spins out a hilarious and (sometimes too) honest recount of her 1200...
View ArticleBelgian court recognises CC licences
TechnoLlama is reporting that a Belgian court upheld a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works licence. Quoting Professor Séverine Dussollier of the University of Namur,...
View ArticleThe etcc Exhibition / A Semi-permanent sideshow of remix works
Benjamin Reeve, Skye Reeve and I have been working on the etcc remixable exhibition series since we were a recipient of the inaugural Creative Commons Catalyst Grants. The Sydney exhibition was...
View ArticleIN/OUTPUTS for 24 to 30 October
In/outputs - a taste plate of stuff that’s gone through my feeds this week You are the Power of Open: 2011 Creative Commons Annual Campaign On 25 October Creative Commons launched the 2011 fundraising...
View ArticleIN/OUTPUTS for 14 to 20 November
In/outputs - a taste plate of stuff that’s gone through my feeds this week Could Checking Facebook in Class Help Students Focus? Another link from GOOD, this time from the Education section. It...
View ArticleIN/OUTPUTS for 28 November to 4 December
In/outputs - a taste plate of stuff that’s passed through my feeds this week DEEDI and QPS websites licensed under CC BY The use of Creative Commons by Government agencies in Australia is huge. The...
View ArticleInternet says, “nopa” to SOPA
To help bring wider attention to the potential ramifications of SOPA and PIPA, an impressive list of internet heavyweights went black yesterday (United States time). While concern over the Bills has...
View ArticleThe new ‘Brian Fitzgerald projects’
While I’ve know about this for awhile, the information is now public so I can tell you all about it. My former boss, Professor Brian Fitzgerald—specialist Research Professor in Intellectual Property...
View ArticleAaron Swartz, death of a console cowboy
In an open letter co-signed by Fee Plumley and I, we suggest to JSTOR’s publisher ITHAKA renaming their free accounts in memoriam of Aaron Swartz. What would be a simple thing to implement for ITHAKA...
View ArticleIN/OUTPUTS Links re: Aaron Swartz
There’s a lot of beautiful and considered things being written about the loss of Aaron Swartz, so I thought I would pull together a bit of a list of the posts I particularly liked: Official statement...
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