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- Title: Digital Agenda Report Card: How are Libraries and the Digital Copyright Amendments Getting on One Year After Commencement?(Discussion of Australian Copyright Law)
- Author : Australian Academic & Research Libraries
- Release Date : January 01, 2002
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 233 KB
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The Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Act 2000 commenced on 4 March 2001. It was the culmination of a legislative development process that seemed excruciatingly long and was peppered with angry exchanges between industries that normally manage to get along quite nicely. Some rights-holder groups had given the view that the passage of this Act which included exceptions to the rights of copyright owners would be the end of the world as we knew it: 'Within three years the damage to online writing and publishing in this country is likely to be so great there will be nothing left to review'. (1) Similarly, library groups had suggested that a failure to pass the amendments might effectively shut libraries out of the digital environment altogether.