2003
e-News on Copyright
Issue 31 - December 2003
POLICY UPDATE; Attorney-General announces a new reference to the Copyright Law Review Committee (CLRC); Senate passes Designs Bills; Update: Review of Digital Agenda Reforms; Update: Free Trade Agreement negotiations; WIPO NEWS; Update: meeting of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCRR), 3-5 November 2003; Attorney-General's Department (AGD) hosts visit by Mr Geoffrey Yu, Deputy Director General, WIPO; STAFF UPDATE; Changes in areas of responsibility within the Copyright Law Branch.
Issue 30 - September 2003
POLICY UPDATE; Update: Review of Digital Agenda reforms; Free Trade Agreement negotiations; Government response to Copycats report; CASE LAW UPDATE; High Court hears arguments in the Panel Case; High Court refuses leave to appeal in Telstra v Desktop Marketing; Kabushiki Kaisha Sony Computer Entertainment v Stevens; Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd v ACCC; Links to other recent cases; WIPO NEWS; Update: IGC on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore; Other meetings; STAFF UPDATE; Staff changes within the Copyright Law Branch.
Issue 29 - June 2003
POLICY UPDATE; Free Trade Negotiations; Commonwealth arrangements for use of Copyright material; Update: Review of Copyright Digital Agenda Reforms; LEGISLATIVE UPDATE; Copyright Amendment (Indigenous Communal Moral Rights) Bill 2003; CASE LAW UPDATE; High Court grants leave to appeal in the Panel Case; Sony Music Entertainment (Australia) Limited v University of Tasmania [2003] FCA 532; Sullivan v FNH Investments Pty Ltd [2003] FCA 323; Sky Channel Pty Ltd v Yahmoc Pty Ltd [2003] FCA 401; BBC World Ltd v Special Broadcasting Service Corp [2003] FCA 247; Re Reference by Powercom Interactive Media Pty Ltd [2003] ACopyT 1; TS & B Retail Systems Pty Ltd v 3fold Resources [2003] FCA 371; Seminars and Meetings; Recent Seminar on Developments in the European Union; WIPO.
Issue 28 - April 2003
POLICY UPDATE; Digital Agenda Review; Australia-United States Free Trade Negotiations; WIPO Asia-Pacific Regional Symposium on the Protection and Enforcement of Copyright and Related Rights; APEC Intellectual Property Experts Group (IPEG); LEGISLATIVE UPDATE; Copyright Amendment (Parallel Importation) Bill 2002; Designs Bills; New Rights legislation; CASE LAW UPDATE; Kabushiki Kaisha Sony Computer Entertainment v Stevens [2002] FCA 906; Eldred v Ashcroft 123 S.Ct. 769; Links to recent cases; UPDATE ON GOVERNMENT REPORTS; The report of The Contemporary Visual Arts and Craft Inquiry; Cracking down on copycats: enforcement of copyright in Australia; CLRC report on Simplification of the Copyright Act 1968, Part 1 and 2; CLRC report on the Jurisdiction and Procedures of the Copyright Tribunal; STAFF UPDATE; Staff changes within the Copyright Law Branch; Branch e-mail address.