Copyright@CIT

The Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department have kindly put out information sheets on the latest raft of Copyright Amendments, they are a good read. Locate them at: http://www.ag.gov.au/www/agd/agd.nsf/AllDocs/74D4B30A63F5EDD3CA2572830080A60E?OpenDocument
Happy reading, they cover all the amendments and are more general, but useful.

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Fair Dealing
A number of circumstances in which the preproduction of a limited or fair part of the work is permitted. No permission is required, and no payment is due to the copyright owner. The circumstances for fair dealing are;
Research or study
Must be for the purposes of research or study. In brief, a whole of part [...]

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This week we look at insubstantial copying. It has been a long established practice that educational institutions can copy ‘insubstantial portions’ of literary and dramatic works, NOT musical or artistic.
These copies have to be used in the course of education, on the premises of the institution, and a whole work can never be copied. This [...]

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Over the next few weeks I’ll start updating you to the changes brought about by the latest copyright laws change. Please remember there a lot of changes, but in the blogs I’ll do topic specific ones, so a bit at a time.
 Today podcasts and vodcasts of broadcast content.
This change relates specifically to material that was [...]

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The copyright amendments that I mentioned recently passed Parliament yesterday.
“It seems that the Copyright Amendment Bill passed the House of Reps at around 4:15pm today. Welcome to the new Australian copyright world. Presumably royal assent will occur sometime mid December, and it will all be fully in place soon.” Compliments of http://weatherall.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_weatherall_archive.html#116530151441788879
So more annoucements soon [...]

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I have been quiet lately, but copyright has not, there is so much discussion about the new copyright amendments that are currently passing through the Commonwealth Parliament, not a lot of discussion on how it may affect educational institutions like those in the VTE sector – I suppose the jury is still out on it. [...]

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A blog to discuss the very scary issues of copyright in the Australian Vocational Training and Education sector. ‘Scary’ in term of nobody wants to talk about it in case ‘they’ find out. Not sure who ‘they’ are! but just in case, this blog’s views are my own and not the Institutes, and it discusses [...]

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