Well, not a very complete one but hey. The online forums are basically over now, and were quite interesting. There was a bit of give and take with the review team, which was good and more than I expected, and will hopefully be quite useful. It wasn’t very well attended, which works out great for […]
I’m going to have a go at blogging some of the various issues the review team raise. Issue 17 Having regard to the decisions in Warner and Sony (at first instance and on appeal), does the exemption for temporary copying in the course of a communication provide sufficient certainty? One of the changes to the […]
So it seems the reason nothing appeared when I tried to find out information on the online forum was due to a bug in the HTML — something was lowercase in one place, and uppercase in the other. Tsk. You can click here to get to the PHP based online forums. Registration is required, it’s […]
Yup it’s all digital agenda all the time here. So first, I’m blind. There are issues papers out, in Word and PDF format. Topics are: Rights and Technology Issues, Circumvention devices and services, technological protection measures and rights management information, Liability of carriers and carriage service providers, and Libraries, archives and educational copying. These were […]
One of the big things that recent years have demonstrated is that one of the big problems with the direction of copyright is the imbalance between company rights and users’ rights. Shrink-wrap and click-wrap licenses, court decisions, and legislation have all been favouring vendors and authors, while consumers are becoming more annoyed and less attentive […]
The Australian Digital Alliance is a group that seems to have a similar set of beliefs to mine, at least. They have a survey about the review that’s worth a look. It’s in RTF which is mildly annoying.
Gah. Well, apparently the review of the Digital Agenda amendments to the Australian Copyright act has already started. Yay for all the publicity. Even better: Public fora are to be held in Melbourne on Thursday 14 August and in Sydney on Thursday 4 September. If you are interested in attending either of these public fora […]
Martin writes, among other things: What it ought to confirm is that before dealing with large amounts of money or running for government you damn well should understand the detail, or consult someone who does. Arguments about whether One Nation is unaccountable to its members or has wacky policies are beside the point. Obviously, I […]
Articles on the Hanson verdict tend to fall into two camps: one says she was a bit silly, but didn’t do anything particularly bad, and three years is ridiculous; the other says she was found guilty of defrauding the state of $500,000 — what sentence would you hand out? It’s a bit difficult to work […]
Laborite Ben thinks IT workers would benefit from collective bargaining, and thus should be forced to partake in it for their own good: I wonder if things will get nearly as bad for IT people and if (or when) it happens, whether IT specialists will consider taking membership of a professional societies more seriously. The […]