2001
e-News on Copyright
Issue 23 - December 2001
Post-Election Update - Government Policies; WIPO Copyright Treaty Receives 30th Signature - Soon to Enter into Force; Report from the 6th WIPO SCCRR – Progress on Possible Broadcasters Treaty; WIPO IGC Meeting - IP and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore; Update on Collecting Societies Draft Code of Conduct; Update on CLRC Inquiry into Copyright and Contract; New AGD Intellectual Property Branch Web Site; Cases of note: AVRA v Warner Home Videos; ABC v Lenah Game Meats; Universal City Studios v Corley; and cases on appeal to the Full Federal Court.
Issue 22 - August 2001
Announcement of Government Response to IP and Competition Review Report; Collecting Societies Draft Code of Conduct and Forum; Update: Proposed Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil Matters; Update: CLRC Inquiry into Copyright and Contract; APEC: IP Experts Group Meeting, Chinese Taipei; Review of the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905.
Issue 21 - June 2001
CLRC Issues Paper on Copyright and Contract released; APEC: IP Symposium and Experts Group Meeting, Chinese Taipei; Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Foreign Judgements - Diplomatic Conference; Copyright held to subsist in telephone directories; Legislation Update: Copyright Amendment (Parallel Importation) Bill 2001; WIPO: meeting of WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, 7-11 May 2001; WIPO: meeting of Intergovernmental Committee on IP and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore, 30 April – 3 May 2001.
Issue 20 - April 2001
Inaugural World Intellectual Property Day: message from WIPO; Digital Agenda: amendments commenced on 4 March 2001; Digital Agenda: copyright and e-mail; Digital Agenda: DVD and games console mod-chips; Criminal Remedies: Criminal Code applied to copyright offences; Collecting Socities: Screenrights appointed as Part VC interim notice holder; Regulations: amendments made to the Copyright (International Protection) Regulations 1969;Copyright Law Review Committee: inquiry into relationship between copyright and contract law commences; Copyright Tribunal: new appointments; WIPO Issues: meetings of interest; APEC Issues: IP experts group meets in Sydney.
Issue 19 - February 2001
Digital Agenda: new regulations mark the final stage of the digital agenda reforms; Moral Rights: new regulations to protect the moral rights of creators; Adelaide Digital Agenda Seminar: 26 February 2001; Copyright Law Review Committee: forthcoming release of final report on Jurisdiction and Procedures of the Copyright Tribunal; Collecting Societies: applications received for declaration as a Collecting Society under Part VC of the Copyright Act 1968.