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And the copyright changes keep coming – safe harbour, fair dealing and more

And the copyright changes keep coming – safe harbour, fair dealing and more

29 January 2016
By Daniella Phair
If copyright lawyers hadn’t already had a busy enough year in 2015 with the introduction of the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Act 2015, they were in for a special holiday treat when the Department of Communications and the Arts released some more interesting draft amendments to the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) (“the Act”) for public comment on Christmas Eve.
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Google gets green light on Library Project

Google gets green light on Library Project

20 December 2013
By Eric Kosack
On 14 November 2013, Judge Denny Chin of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York found that Google’s “Library Project”, under which it has now scanned tens of millions of books (many of them under copyright) without permission from the rights holders, and made them available in “snippet form”, constituted a “fair use” of the materials, providing Google with a complete defence to the allegation of copyright infringement.
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