Data Retention a boon for Copyright Trolls
As AFP Commissioner Andrew Colvin confirmed to a press conference in Canberra yesterday, mandatory data retention will include data that will enable copyright holders to chase people they believe have infringed their copyright. Communications Minister Turnbull tried to play this down, saying, “They do this pretty much in real-time, so the two year holding of data […]
Copyright in the Trans-Pacific Partnership echoes past mistakes
This article, by Kimberlee Weatherall from the University of Sydney was originally published at The Conversation. See the original article. Ten years on from the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement, Australia is entering another round of negotiations towards the new and controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership. In this Free Trade Scorecard series, we review Australian trade policy over the years […]
Individual Copyright Submissions
Submissions for the Government’s Copyright Infringement Discussion Paper closed at the start of the month. The Attorney-General’s department has arbitrarily decided to publish only the submissions written by organisations and not those from individual Australians. We know that many of you contributed, answering questions and offering critique and are probably disappointed that the Government has […]
Copyright Infringement Submission
We’ve completed our submission to the public consultation being conducted by the Attorney-General’s Department about online copyright infringement. Our primary points are: there has been no convincing, independent evidence presented that demonstrates that online copyright infringement is any more prevalent in Australia than in comparable countries. the proposals contained in the Department’s Discussion Paper (excluding the […]
New threat to Australian sovereignty in TPP negotiations
This article, by Jeremy Malcolm and Maira Sutton, was originally published in EFF’s Deeplinks blog on 14th August 2014. See the original article. Certification Allows US Trade Negotiators to Rewrite TPP Copyright Rules As the negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) continue to trudge along, little new information has leaked because the negotiations are […]