After 20 years of copyright battles, publishers have still not found a way to make the most of the potential of digital books.
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A new copyright reform law has many up in arms – they want you to do something about it before it comes up for a vote.
The government’s latest Copyright Amendment Bill is a step in the right direction, but it doesn’t do enough to foster innovation.
Digital and animal cultures pose a profound challenge to the law’s recognition of human uniqueness.
When can you use someone else’s copyright work without their permission? We explain ‘fair dealing’ and ‘fair use’ law in a handy guide.
Many companies are working to prevent customers from fixing broken smartphones and tractors. By doing so, they’re missing out on an opportunity to build customer loyalty and boost profits.
A proposed tweak to the copyright laws should make it easier to reversion protected works for people with disabilities.
What happened after artists such as Michael Jackson, J.D. Salinger and Franz Kafka died suggests it’ll be hard to keep Prince’s unpublished work out of the public eye, regardless of his wishes.
Fixing copyright is essential for Malcolm Turnbull’s ‘ideas boom’ to succeed, but you wouldn’t know it given the slow and repetitive approach to copyright reform.
Will they stand with the protestors worried about an erosion of freedoms or with the companies eager to protect their intellectual property?
Copyright law had to figure out how to deal with digital media. Now 3D printers – and their capacity for infringement – are poised to challenge the patent system in a similar way.
A treaty that allowed copyright owners to decide how and when their content was made available to the public has been interpreted too broadly by some.
Google has won again in its efforts to create a searchable digital library of books. But many author groups still believe the project infringes their copyright.
Enforcing copyright protection in the digital age has become complex. South Africa should tread carefully as it amends its copyright laws.
How much might Australians caught illegally downloading Dallas Buyers Club be charged for their indescretion?
Downloading copyrighted material without permission is illegal, but is it morally equivalent to stealing a DVD?
Australians are amongst the top pirates of movies and television worldwide, but that may change in time.
The Dallas Buyers Club court ruling has serious implications for online privacy.
When asked in 1977 what he would do now that Elvis was dead, his manager Colonel Parker allegedly replied: “Why, I’ll just go right on managing him!”. In Parker’s mind, neither Elvis’ name, image, likeness…
Rumours are flying that the government will introduce legislation before Christmas aimed at blocking certain websites, such as The Pirate Bay and Kickass Torrents, as part of a range of efforts to reduce…
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Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology
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