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  • Media Statement
  • CADAOM Act
  • copyright duration
  • copyright policy
  • disability access
  • education
  • perpetual copyright
  • preservation
15 Jun 2017

Australia leads in disability access, thanks to copyright changes

Australians with a disability will have some of the strongest rights to access content in the world, thanks to changes to Australia’s copyright laws passed today.
  • Media Statement
  • CADAOM Act
  • copyright duration
  • copyright policy
  • disability access
  • perpetual copyright
  • preservation
22 Mar 2017

New Copyright Bill Will End the Book Famine

A landmark Bill to end the book famine for Australians with a vision impairment is welcomed by peak copyright body the Australian Digital Alliance (ADA).

  • Media Statement
  • copyright policy
  • Productivity Commission
20 Dec 2016

Productivity Commission recommends a fair copyright system for all Australians

The Productivity Commission's recommendations for a fairer copyright system for all Australians are welcomed by peak body the Australian Digital Alliance (ADA).
  • News
  • copyright policy
  • Productivity Commission
29 Apr 2016

Productivity Commission’s copyright recommendations welcomed by Australia’s schools, universities, libraries and technology companies

The Australian Digital Alliance (ADA) welcomes the sensible and much needed proposals for changes to Australia’s copyright law contained in the draft report of the Productivity Commission’s Intellectual Property Arrangement Inquiry, which was released today.
  • Media Statement
  • copyright policy
  • Site blocking
23 Apr 2015

Overseas sites to be blocked while legal protections for local sites languish

Copyright advocacy group the Australian Digital Alliance is urging the government to move swiftly on reforms that would allow online platforms, especially those that host third party content, to operate safely in Australia.
  • Blog Post
  • Public Domain Day
  • Public Domain Day 2015
  • The public domain
01 Jan 2015

(Not so) happy Public Domain Day!

There’s not much to celebrate for Public Domain Day in Australia this year.
  • Media Statement
  • copyright policy
  • safe harbour
11 Dec 2014

Safe harbours still broken despite 10 year campaign to rectify drafting mistake

PRESS RELEASE: Safe harbours still broken despite 10 year campaign to rectify drafting mistake
  • Media Statement
  • authorisation
  • copyright policy
11 Dec 2014

ADA Media Release: Online Copyright Infringement

The announcement that there will be no changes to authorisation liability in the scheme to tackle online copyright infringement has been welcomed by the Australian Digital Alliance.
  • News
  • copyright policy
  • IT Pricing Inquiry
29 Jul 2014

A year after the IT Pricing Review – Australians are still waiting longer and paying more

A year ago today, the bipartisan IT Pricing Inquiry concluded that Australians do pay more for their music, movies and IT products.  This ‘Australia tax’ they concluded, was not explained by additional staffing costs or warranty obligations, but primarily by deliberate market segmentation, enforced with goeblocks on digital content. 
  • Media Statement
  • Australian Law Reform Committee
  • copyright policy
24 Feb 2014

Australian Culture needs Copyright Reform

Cultural institutions and creators join industry, consumers and educators in support of fair use. 
  • News
  • Australian Law Reform Committee
  • tech
19 Feb 2014

Copyright Reform Needed for Future Innovation and Current Practice

The Tech and Telco sector support Attorney-General’s commitment to copyright reform
  • Media Statement
  • Trans Pacific Partnership
17 May 2013

New coalition to TPP negotiators: This is what a Fair Deal looks like

May 17, 2013 – Today, a coalition of organisations representing a diversity of interests have come together from around the world to ask for A Fair Deal on intellectual property (IP) in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP).