Speak Out #5: Introducing Fair Use – Niva Elkin-Koren
Thursday 15th May, 18:30 AEST Israel adopted a new copyright law in 2007, which included a shift from a British-style ‘fair dealing’ framework to an American-style ‘fair use framework. The Australian government is currently considering its response to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s recent report, which recommends that Australian copyright law be shifted in the same manner. […]
Stop the pirates? Behind Brandis’ copyright crusade
Copyright has been firmly back on the agenda in recent months. We’ve seen the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) release its report on copyright which recommended that Australia adopt a “fair use” exception to copyright infringement. Yet we’ve also seen the Attorney General, George Brandis, get more exercised about copyright piracy this month, and pledge […]
WA Senate Re-election scorecard
As we’ve done with previous federal polls, EFA has rated a selection of the parties contesting this Saturday’s Western Australian half-Senate re-election. The Greens and the Pirate Party remain the stand-out choices for people concerned about digital rights, however the Secular Party, the Sex Party and the Wikileaks Party all score well, but have not articulated […]
EFA Speak Out #4: Narelle Clark
EFA is very proud to present our next EFA Speak Out, featuring Narelle Clark. Narelle is a long-standing Life Member of EFA and is currently the President of the Internet Society of Australia and sits on the Internet Society’s global Board of Trustees. Narelle has over 20 years’ experience in network engineering and management positions […]
The only way to fix copyright is to make it fair
By Nicolas Suzor, Queensland University of Technology. Dr Suzor is a Life Member and former Chair of EFA. Everyone knows there’s a problem with copyright. Artists get paid very little for their work, and legitimate consumers aren’t getting a very fair deal either. Unfortunately, nobody agrees about how we should fix it. Speaking at the […]