Events

• 6th Intl Conf on Pervasive Computing
  SYD, 19-22 May 2008
• Computer Energy Standard Workshop
  SYD, 8 Feb 2008
• IGF 2007
  RIO, 11-15 Nov 2007
• VIDEO SLAM Screening
  MEL, 14 May 2007
• RIGHTS ONLINE
  MEL, 9 May 2007

Latest comments

• Re: Threat to Sth Korea ICT rights
  For any Korean readers, plenty more information about these issues from Jinbonet's blogs and NO FTA ...
  2007-11-14
• Re: Digital rights and wrongs
  in speaking to arts law australia it appeared that there was either little knowledge of these millen...
  2006-11-21
• Re: iPod dictatorship
  Danny, thanks for the clarification. We are hoping people take time to read the responses to Charle'...
  2005-11-14
• Re: iPod dictatorship
  The summary taken from the article is factually incorrect - it's not "Apple's copyright" that is bro...
  2005-11-10
• Re: MEAA halts world-first film project in Australia
  MEAA lashes out at the AFC in this media release. If the Musician's Union took the same stand there'...
  2005-04-04

Latest trackback pings

• To blog or not to blog
  The EFF have produced a Legal Guide for Bloggers. Of course it's based on US law. I wonder what it..
  2005-07-05
• Aussie actors' guild forbids members to use Creative Commons
  Brian sez, "The Australian equivalent of the Screen Actors Guild has apparently refused to allow its
  2005-03-20
• MEAA halts world-first film project in Australia
  In the increasingly conservative political and economic environment that is Australia, it is not sur
  2005-03-17
• Aussie actors' guild forbids members to use Creative Commons
  Brian sez, "The Australian equivalent of the Screen Actors Guild has apparently refused to allow its
  2005-03-17
• MEAA Rejects Creative Commons
  MEAA halts world-first film project in Australia
  2005-03-15

News

• 2008-01-24 Call for submissions: Copying photos and films for private use
• 2008-01-24 National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting System
• 2007-11-14 Threat to Sth Korea ICT rights
• 2007-08-17 Mobile battle over TV formats
• 2007-07-19 Ozzies online

Articles

IGF 2007 - APC opening speech

APC's Executive Director, Anriette Esterhuysen, along with other key stakeholders, was invited to open the Internet Governance Forum (IG) 2007, representing civil society participation. Anriette delivers a speech, from prepared notes, that sustains the integrity of the APC role in...

Why care about online rights

MELBOURNE: Prepared for Rights Online, Arts Law Week, in association with OPEN CHANNEL and Cinema Nova, 9 May 2007....

Record Labels: Licensing File Sharing

Nearly three years ago, Electronic Frontier Foundation published a paper advocating voluntary collective licensing for P2P, a system that would get artists paid and allow fans to keep sharing music however they like for a flat fee. According to this...

Podcast: Copyright Amendment Bill 2006

Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Law Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, and Peter Coroneos from the Internet Industry Association discuss the implications of Australia’s impending new copyright laws. Download the podcast (available under CC BY 2.5 (Australia): 5MG OGG or 10MB MP3....

Digital rights and wrongs

The Australian Government will sign up to the US driven Millennium Copyright Act, coming into effect 1 January 2007. Michael Dwyer presents a compelling argument for awareness raising to the implications of this Act, issues of digital rights management and...

Private Images and Public Debate

Craig Bellamy writes about the complex contexts in which individuals publish every day events to sites like YouTube. "From the bedroom to the battlefield, increasing amounts of seemingly innocent everyday occurrences are now recorded and distributed by individuals not always...

Why sharing videos is a risky business

Craig Bellamy critiques YouTube and the everydayness of material published there and the contexts authors are often unaware they are publishing in. "From the bedroom to the battlefield, increasing amounts of seemingly innocent everyday occurrences are recorded and distributed by...

Me, myself and I... the Summit

Andrew Garton critically reports on the iSummit 2006 that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between the 23 and 25 June. The 19-page PDF entitled "Me, myself and i... the Summit" presents, in a slick format, a rare amount...