What Does Copyright Have to Do With ‘Free Trade’?

This article, by Jeremy Malcolm, was originally published on EFF’s Deeplinks Blog. Jeremy is a former EFA Board Member and is currently Senior Global Policy Analyst at EFF. See the original article. What Does Copyright Have to Do With “Free Trade”? Unpicking the Undemocratic Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Democracy makes the job of our […]

EFA calls for the prompt introduction of fair use into Australian copyright law

Media Release: Canberra, 13th February 2014 Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) todays calls on the federal government and opposition to support the prompt introduction of fair use into Australian copyright law. Australia’s current Copyright Act is no longer fit for purpose in an environment of increasingly rapid innovations in technology and service delivery. The current law […]

Speak Out 2 Video: Dr Matthew Rimmer

Electronic Frontiers Australia was honoured to host ANU College of Law Associate Professor Dr Matthew Rimmer as our second guest in our Speak Out event series. EFA Speak Out events use Google Hangout On Air to showcase a local or international guest discussing and answering questions about online rights.

EFA Speak Out #2: Dr Matthew Rimmer

EFA is proud to announce that we will be joined by Dr Matthew Rimmer from the ANU College of Law for our second Speak Out event. Dr Rimmer is a leading academic commentator on issues relating to intellectual property and international trade agreements.  He will be discussing issues relating to copyright reform in Australia: remix culture, the […]

An open letter from the Our Fair Deal Coalition to TPP trade ministers

The Our Fair Deal Coalition, an international group of civil society groups and commercial enterprises from across the countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement negotiations, has today written to responsible ministers in each of the TPP countries, calling on them to reject copyright proposals that would limit the open Internet, access to knowledge, […]