Recent Legislative and Case Law Developments - Australia
27 March 2007 on 12:05 pm by jdrlegal | In copyright | 1 CommentA range of changes to the Australian Copyright Act came into force on a range of dates between 11 December 2006 and 8 January 2007.
- Protection for users has been given where use of copyright material is a fair dealing for the purpose of parody or satire;
- New sections 43C, 47J and 110AA permit copying and storage to different platforms for one’s own use – these exceptions are to be reviewed by 31 March 2008;
- A new section 109A permits domestic copying of sound recordings for the purpose of ‘format shifting’;
- Remedies have been enhanced to permit copyright owners to take civil action against commercial-scale electronic infringements, including the commercial facilitation of peer-to-peer file sharing and provision of hypertext links or downloads;
- The prohibition on circumvention of access controls has been strengthened both as to civil remedies and criminal penalties but the requirement that the access control represent a ‘technological protection measure’ against copyright infringement remains;
- Archives and libraries, schools and organizations for people with disabilities have been given further protection from copyright infringement where copying takes place for their legitimate purposes.
Recent Legislative and Case Law Developments - USA
27 March 2007 on 12:04 pm by jdrlegal | In copyright | No CommentsThe US Court of Appeals in the case Brooks-Ngwenya v Thompson and others (7th Cir.,
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