Australian copyright industries generate $97.7 billion, says report
A PricewaterhouseCoopers report undertaken for the Australian Copyright Council has found that Australia's copyright industries generated $97.7 billion in economic activity in 2007. The report, which was released by the...
Productivity Commission terms of reference announced
Chris Bowen, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs, has announced the terms of reference for a Productivity Commission report on the current laws regarding parallel book importation...
Parallel importation to be reviewed: COAG
The Australian Productivity Commission is to undertake a review of the legislation governing the parallel importation of books in Australia, following a meeting of federal and state governments in Sydney...
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'Five Bells' up for saleThe copyright on one of Australia's best-known poems, Five Bells by Kenneth Slessor, is up for sale. Slessor's son, Paul, plans to use the proceeds from selling...
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New copyright guide on ‘special case exception'The Copyright Council has published a new information booklet on Special case exception, designed primarily to inform educators, libraries, galleries & museums on the...
Talking to the search engines in language they understand
After almost 18 months of work, Automated Content Access Protocol--the code that book and newspaper publishers hope will provide them with a universal way of communicating permissions information to internet...
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New book on Copyright ActThe Australian Copyright Council has released a new book covering the 2006 amendments to the Copyright Act. The Council has also published updates to its previous...
It’s just not cricket–APA decries Cricket Australia censorship
A move by Cricket Australia (CA) to ban editorial material created at its events from being used in books, unless approved by CA, has drawn intense criticism from the Australian...
CAL reports half-billion-dollar milestone
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced a milestone, with its 2006-07 distribution bringing the total returned to rightsholders since CAL's establishment in 1989 to over half a billion dollars.At $134.3...
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Kiwi claims victory in Amazon patent fightNew Zealander Peter Calveley is claiming a one-man victory over Amazon.com, with the internet retail giant announcing changes to its '1-click' checkout system following an...
CAL announces new model for payments
The Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced changes to the way it will distribute payments in the new year. Under CALdirect, a new system to be introduced in mid-2008, members...
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Concern at commercialisation of textbooks in NSWThe New South Wales Opposition has expressed concerns that the State Government is allowing corporations to market their products in books used in schools....
New CAL licence to streamline business copyright payments
In response to recent changes to the Copyright Act, Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has introduced a new license to ‘support legal copying by businesses.' An expansion of the current CAL...
Copyright Council responds to digital copyright concerns
The Australian Copyright Council has released a new book Technology, Contracts and Paracopyright, in response to the concerns of those using copyright material that usage is becoming increasingly restricted. ‘Gaining...
CAL update
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced a major new agreement with its US counterpart Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), which will allow access and payment for digital use of both Australian...
ACAP ‘milestone’
The ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol) Project has announced that it has passed a ‘major milestone' following a recent meeting in London.ACAP is a joint initiative by book and newspaper...
Microsoft’s Live Search Books is coming to the Antipodes–eventually
Further to last week's story about the partnership between Global Books in Print (GBiP) and Microsoft's Live Search Books program, Microsoft has provided more details on how Live Search Books...
CAL calls for feedback
Following the passing of the Copyright Amendment Bill 2006 by the House of Representatives on 4 December last year, the Copyright Agency Limited is calling for feedback on what stakeholders...
Amended Copyright Bill passes both houses
The amendments made by the Senate to the Copyright Amendment Bill 2006 were agreed to by the House of Representatives on 5 December. ‘The provisions in Schedules 6 to 8...
Knox appointed to CAL board
Journalist and author Malcolm Knox has been appointed to the board of directors for Australian copyright management company Copyright Agency Limited (CAL). Knox said in a statement that he looked forward...