On August 13, the Government announced a plan to reform digital copyright laws to bring them into line with the needs of a more online Australia. While nothing has changed yet, we can expect to see some draft legislation by the end of the year. We thought this would be a good opportunity to look …
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Australia’s copyright laws, enshrined in the Copyright At 1968 (Cth)(the Act) are designed to protect original, tangible material. For example, you can protect things like artistic or literary work, articles, photographs, maps, broadcasts and other pieces of multimedia. Despite there being no registration scheme in Australia like there is for trademarks, copyright material is said …
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