Those Australians who work with copyright law would know that there has long been a major omission in comparison to the law overseas: we’ve never been able to make a back-up for format shift copy of a work. A few exceptions did apply, for example, S107 of the Copyright Act 1968 (Making of a copy […]
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Finally, we can legally format shift
Published by May 14th, 2006 in Law, Parliament and Copyright. 4 CommentsThe Parliamentary Library feed is one of my favourites. Usually, most of the content is fairly dry - new inquiries, reports, bills going through Parliament, but one report title today has a great sense of humour -”‘Gold! Gold to Australia! Gold!’ Australian gold statistics”
If you don’t get the reference, you probably aren’t Australian. Here’s a […]
