Submissions

• Artificial intelligence
• Submissions

Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The ADA made a submission to the Senate Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) looking at the conflict between innovation and copyright policy and the competing goals of promoting AI development and protecting copyright.

• Australasian Performing Rights Association (APRA)
• Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
• Collecting societies
• Music
• Royalties
• Advocacy
• Submissions

Joint submission in response to the application by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) for revocation of authorisation AA1000433 and substitution of new authorisation AA1000661

The ADA and the ALACC made a submission in response to APRA's latest re-authorisation application with the ACCC.

• Artificial intelligence
• copyright
• submissions
• Submissions

Submission in response to the Department of Industry, Science and Resources’ Safe and Responsible AI in Australia Discussion Paper

• Authorisation liability
• Automated content identification systems
• Copyright cases
• Copyright criminal penalties
• Copyright enforcement
• Copyright licensing
• Copyright small claims processes
• Notice and takedown schemes
• Safe harbour
• Website blocking
• Advocacy
• Submissions

Joint submission in response to the Copyright Enforcement Review 2022–2023

The context for copyright enforcement has changed significantly since the passing of the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Act 2015.

• Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP)
• Indigenous data sovereignty
• Indigenous protocols
• Productivity Commission
• Advocacy
• Submissions

Joint submission in response to the Productivity Commission's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Visual Arts and Crafts Draft Report

We support more effective recognition and protection of ICIP in Australia, including legal and nonlegal mechanisms.

• Access Reform Bill 2021
• Access to cultural heritage
• copyright
• Copyright access reforms
• Creative Australia
• Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP)
• National Cultural Policy
• Submissions

Joint submission in response to a new National Cultural Policy

Finishing the modernisation of the Copyright Act 1968, recognising and protecting Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) and equitable access to Australia’s cultural heritage should be priorities for the new Cultural Policy.

• Artificial intelligence
• Automated decision making
• Machine learning
• Advocacy
• Submissions

Submission in response to the Digital Technology Taskforce’s Automated Decision Making and AI Regulation Issues Paper

There are important copyright considerations that need to be factored into the future regulation of automated decision making (ADM) and artificial intelligence (AI).

• Copyright access reforms
• Copyright consultation
• Copyright policy
• Education
• Fair dealing
• Government
• Government statutory licence
• Government use of copyright
• Libraries and archives
• Libraries and archives exceptions
• Online education
• Orphan Works
• Orphan works limited liability scheme
• Private and domestic use
• Quotation
• Technological protection measures
• Advocacy
• Submissions

Joint submission in response to an exposure draft of the Copyright Amendment (Access Reform) Bill 2021 and the review of technological protection measures (TPMs) exceptions

Australia needs a copyright system that is digital-first and the Access Reform Bill provides the opportunity for Australia to embrace an effective online future.

• Copyright access reforms
• COVID-19
• Creative and cultural industries and institutions inquiry
• House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts
• Advocacy
• Submissions

Joint submission to the Communications and the Arts Standing Committee inquiry into Australia’s creative and cultural industries and institutions

The proposed Copyright access reforms would improve the position of Australia’s creative and cultural industries in the face of COVID-19 and future challenges.

• Copyright and IP treaties
• Joint Standing Committee on Treaties
• Trade agreements
• Treaty-making process inquiry
• Advocacy
• Submissions

Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties inquiry into Certain Aspects of the Treaty-making Process in Australia

With copyright and IP increasingly included in international treaties and free trade agreements, the secrecy of trade negotiations reduces the transparency around IP negotiations, which is almost invariably contrary to the public interest.