ADVOCACY, POLICY & NEWS
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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…
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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…
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Brazil – where the action is! Part 2 – NETmundial
I’m in São Paulo, Brazil at the end of the last day of the NETmundial conference, the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance. This conference was a unique event, created by Brazilian President Dilma Roussef in the hopes it will be the start of a lasting change…
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Brazil – where the action is! Part 1 – Marco Civil
I’m in Brazil for the NETmundial meeting, also knows as the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance. The NETmundial conference was thrown together very quickly after being announced by president Dilma Rousseff late in 2013. NETmundial is an attempt to kickstart a consensus set of principles for…
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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…
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Thanks for the last 20 years, Michael
20 years ago, iiNet was still a very new small ISP in a suburban garage, and iiNet co-founder Michael Malone was one of those who recognised the need for an organisation to protect the online civil rights of Australians, similar to the role the Electronic Frontier Foundation played in the…