Updated 16 October, 2006

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AUSTRALIA

US-Australia Free Trade Agreement 2004 (includes intellectual property and copyright)

• Senate Select Committee on the Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the United States of America (AU)
• Interim Report - Tabled 24 June
• Joint Standing Committee on Treaties Report 61  Australia - United States, Free Trade Agreement. Tabled 23 June 2004 (AU)
• Dissenting Report.
• Intellectual property rights and the Australia—US Free Trade Agreement.  David Richardson, Economics, Commerce and Industrial Relations Section. 31 May 2004.  Research Paper No. 14 2003–04. Information and Research Services.  Parliamentary Library.  (AU)
• AVCC submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties Inquiry in to the proposed Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement  (May 2004) Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee.  (AU)
• Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement.  Economic Analysis of AUSFTA: Impact of the bilateral free trade agreement with the United States.  Report by the Centre for International Economics. April, 2004.  (AU)
• Senate Select Committee on the Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the United States of America (AU)
• Submissions received.
• CAUL Submission, April, 2004.
• ALIA Submission. Australian Library and Information Association.
• ALCC Submission.  Australian Libraries Copyright Committee.
• ADA Submission.  Australian Digital Alliance.
• CAL Submission.  Copyright Agency Ltd.
• Dr Matthew Rimmer Submission.  ANU Faculty of Law
• Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement.  DRAFT: The .... documents are draft only and subject to legal review for accuracy, clarity and consistency. March 4, 2004 DFAT's AUSFTA Taskforce (AU)
• Section 17.  Intellectual Property Rights.
• Exchange of Letters on Aspects of IP.
• Exchange of Letters on Education Services
• Exchange of Letters on Higher Education in US States
• Exchange of Letters on ISP Liability
• U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement.  United States Trade Representative. (US)
• Fact Sheet - 8 February, 2004
• Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement  (AU)
• Free Trade Agreement with the United States.  Media Release  8 February 2004 - MVT08/2004.  Minister for Trade, The Hon. Mark Vaile, MP
• Fact Sheets
• Intellectual Property
• Services
• Domestic Approval
• E and OE. 31 October, 2003 Transcript. Media briefing in Canberra following the fourth round of Free Trade Agreement negotiations (27-31 October) between Australia and the United States. Briefing conducted by Australia’s chief negotiator Stephen Deady and the United States’ chief negotiator Ralph Ives. Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. (AU)
• Australian Libraries’ Copyright Committee and the Australian Digital Alliance - submission to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on the Australia- US Free Trade Agreement. April 2003 (AU)

Digital Agenda Review 2003

• Libraries, Archives and Educational Copying. Issues Paper.
• CAUL response.  30 September 2003.  Council of Australian University Librarians.  (AU)
• Registration for public forums, Melbourne (August 14) and Sydney (September 4), at Phillips Fox website: http://www.phillipsfox.com/whats_on/Australia/DigitalAgenda/RegistrationForm.asp

Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Bill 1999

• Digital Copyright : The Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Act 2000 - Presentation by the Executive Officer of the Australian Digital Alliance (ADA), Nick Smith, given to staff at the ANU on 2 February 2001. (AU)
• Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Act 1999 [pdf file]:  A Bill for an Act to amend the Copyright Act 1968.  Introduced into Parliament 2 September, 1999. Explanatory memorandum [pdf file]   (AU)
• House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs on the Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Bill 1999, introduced into the House of Representatives on 2 September 1999. Response prepared by Evelyn Woodberry, 28 September, 1999.
• The advisory report of the inquiry into the Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Bill 1999 was tabled in  the House of Representatives on 6 December 1999. Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs.  (AU)
• A Submission from the EdNA Reference Committee [A Task Force of the Ministerial Council on Education,  Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA)] on the Exposure Draft of  the Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Bill.  (AU)
• Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Bill 1999 - CAUL Submission, prepared by Evelyn Woodberry, 19 March, 1999.  (AU)
• Copyright and the Internet: New Government reforms The Hon Daryl Williams AM QC MP Attorney-General. plus  Background Presentation on Digital Issues  by  Fiona Macmillan Copyright Director Asia Pacific Intellectual Property Law Institute School of Law, Murdoch University.    Murdoch University, Perth (Seminar organised by the Asia Pacific Intellectual Property Institute, Murdoch University, at the request at the Office of the Attorney-General 30 April 1998) (AU)
• House of Representatives.  Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs Inquiry into Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Bill 1999. The committee has been asked to report by 9 December 1999. Submissions should be sent as soon as possible, and by no later than Friday 1 October 1999. (AU)
• Submissions received.
• Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Bill 1999  (Amendments to be moved on behalf of the Government) 19 June 2000. (AU)
• Bills Digest No. 102 19992000 Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Bill 1999.   2 September 1999
• The Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Act 2000 - complete text of the Act including all HoR/Senate amendments (AU)
• The Economics of Copyright and the Digital Agenda.   Prepared for Copyright Agency Limited by Hans Hoegh Guldberg, Economic Strategies Pty Ltd [1999] (AU)

The impact of the intellectual property laws on competition.

•  Intellectual Property and Competition Review Committee - to review the impact of the intellectual property laws on competition.  Closing date for submissions 31 October 1999  (AU)
• Intellectual Property & Competition Review Committee. Final report - Review of intellectual property legislation under the Competition Principles Agreement.  ISBN: 0 642 70508 9 September 2000  (AU)

Jurisdiction and Procedures of the Copyright Tribunal.

• Copyright Law Review Committee. Jurisdiction and Procedures of the Copyright Tribunal.  June 1999 - Comments should be made by 23 July 1999.  (AU)

Inquiry into Enforcement of Copyright.

• Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia.  Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. Inquiry into the Enforcement of copyright - referred by the Attorney-General on 17 March 1999. Submissions due 21 May, 1999.  (AU)
•  Background paper (pdf format)
• Australia. House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. Inquiry into Enforcement of Copyright. Submission from the Australian Digital Alliance.  (AU)

Simplification of the Copyright Act 1968

• Report on the Simplification of theCopyright Act 1968 Part 2:  Categorisation of Subject Matter and Exclusive Rights, and Other Issues.  Copyright Law Review Committee (AU)

Outstanding Issues from CCG Report

• Outstanding Issues from CCG Report - CAUL submission to the Copyright Law Review Committee, prepared by Evelyn Woodberry, 16 July 1998. (AU)

Copyright Amendment Bill 1997

• Copyright Amendment Bill 1997 2nd Reading Australian House of Representatives Hansard for 18th June 1997 (AU)
• Copyright Amendment Bill 1997 Explanatory Memorandum (pdf format) Australian House of Representatives (AU)

Review of Australian Copyright Collecting Societies

• Review of Australian Copyright Collecting Societies: a Report to the Minister for Communications and the Arts and the Minister for Justice, by Shane Simpson. June 1995 ISBN 0 642 22909 0

General (including technology, management of intellectual property)

• AEShareNet (Australian Educational Sharing Network) is an innovative concept for managing copyright in the vocational education and training (VET) sector. (AU)
• Australian Digital Alliance - report of meeting held 24 July 1998.  (AU)
• Calendar [newsletter of the Copyright Agency Limited] September 1996 | December 1996 | April 1997 (AU)
• Copyright A discussion paper prepared for CAUL/JISC by Annabelle Herd, Australian Council of Libraries and Information Services (AU)
• Copyright in Universities [pdf format]- Leanne Wiseman, Faculty of Law, QUT - Occasional Paper Series 99E, Higher Education Division, Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (September, 1999)  (AU)
• Copyright News.  Australian Library & Information Association (AU)
• Copyright Society of Australia, Inc  (AU)
• Copyright: Some Electronic Dimensions of Academic Publishing, by Colin Steele (University Librarian, The Australian National University)
• Copyright Law Review Committee Copyright Reform: A Consideration of Rationales, Interests and Objectives
• Copyrites: the newsletter of the Intellectual Property Branch. Intellectual Property Branch Department of Communications and the Arts. (AU)
• e-News on Copyright June 2000. Attorney-General's Department. Intellectual Property Branch. (AU)
• Brudenall P 'The Future of Fair Dealing in Australian Copyright Law', 1997 (1) The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT)
• Information Technology & Cyberspace: Their Impact on Rights and Liberties, by Roger Clarke
• Intellectual Property & Competition Review Committee.  Interim Report 6 April 2000.  Written comments should be received no later than close of business 8 May 2000.  (AU)
• The Janus Project - presentation by Alex Byrne (Pro Vice-Chancellor (Information Resources), Northern Territory University to Symposium on Scholarship, Intellectual Ownership and the Law.  Hosted by the National Academies Forum and the National Library of Australia.July 15-16 1999 Canberra.  (AU)
• 'National and International Issues in Intellectual Property and Multimedia': a report by Lionel Bently, Brad Sherman and Julian Thomas Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Griffith University March 1997 ISBN 0 646 32519 1 [Executive summary] (AU)
• Open Access to Legal Sources in Australasia: Current Debate on Crown Copyright and the Case of the Anthropomorphic Postbox, by Judith Bannister, University of Western Sydney, Nepean. (The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT), Issue Three, 30 September 1996.)
• Discussion paper - Performers' Intellectual Property Rights: Scope of extended rights for performers under the Copyright Act 1968 - Joint publication with Attorney General's - December 1997 (Department of Communications and the Arts) (AU)
• Reading the Future: The inaugural Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Library Week Oration, delivered at the State Library of NSW, 1 May 1996 by The Hon. Sir Anthony Mason AC, KBE - Chairman, National Library of Australia Council; Chancellor, University of New South Wales; National Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
• Record-Keeping of Copying in Australian Universities.  Documents provided by the AVCC.
• Rights Management:  Issues and Solutions: Notes for a talk to the AIMA Seminar "Information and Copyright: managing the rights of the creators and the users", in conjunction with the INFORMATION ONLINE & ON-DISC Conference, Sydney, January 1997 by Bill Tuck, Tuck Segal Associates London, UK
• The story of Yongyi: intellectual freedom and academic libraries:  a transcript of the speech delivered by Alex Byrne to the first Markets Forum held on September 7, 2000 in the City Campus Library of the Unversity of Technology, Sydney.  (AU)

INTERNATIONAL

• The International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO)
• 1996 December 2-20 Geneva Diplomatic Conference on Certain Copyright and Neighboring Rights QuestionsDocuments (WIPO)
• Libraries, Copyright and the Electronic Environment A position paper by Carol Rischer on behalf of the IPCC on the occasion of the IPA 25th Congress, Barcelona, April 1996
• Position Paper on Libraries, Copyright and the Electronic Environment of the International Publishers Copyright Council (IPCC)
• A Primer On The Proposed WIPO Treaty On Database Extraction Rights That Will Be Considered In December 1996* October 29, 1996, Revised. (James Love, Consumer Project on Technology)
• Treaty for the Protection of the Rights of Performers and Producers of Phonograms Adopted by the Diplomatic Conference on December 20, 1996 (WIPO treaty) [from the NINCH News Center] (US)
• Treaty on Certain Questions Concerning the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works Adopted by the Diplomatic Conference on December 20, 1996 (WIPO treaty) [from the NINCH News Center] (US)
• NISO License Expression Working Group.  The National Information Standards Organization, Digital Library Federation (DLF), EDItEUR, and Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) have agreed to form a License Expression Working Group to develop a single standard for the exchange of license information between publishers and libraries.  (US)

EUROPE

• Follow-Up To The Green Paper On Copyright And Related Rights In The Information Society (Commission Of The European Communities Brussels, 20.11.1996 Com(96) 586 Final )
• JISC/Publishers Association Working Party Papers and Reports (UK)
• Copyright clearance and digitisation in UK Higher Education: Supporting Study for the JISC/PA Clearance Mechanisms Working Party
• Report of the Joint Information Systems Committee & Publishers Association Working Party On Fair Dealing in an Electronic Environment.
• Joint Information Systems Committee & Publishers Association Working Party Proposed 'Model Licence' Between UK Universities and Publishers July 1997
• UK Department of Trade and Industry Report of the Multi-Media Advisory Group (14/3/96)
• Report of the Intellectual Property Rights Sub- Group
• Report of the Education Sub-Group
• The Shetland News Appeal Fund. ("Please help us defeat this unprecedented legal attack on the freedom of the Internet: The Shetland Times Ltd have obtained a temporary court order preventing The Shetland News from making free HTML links to pages on their website.")
• Technologies to Support Copyright Management: A short term supporting study for the eLib Electronic Libraries Programme funded by the JISC for the Higher Education Funding Councils. (Robin Yeates, Senior Researcher; Bill Tuck, Associate Consultant) (UK)
• Publishers Licensing Society. (UK)
• Together with the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society, PLS owns and directs the Copyright Licensing Agency and works in partnership with the Design and Artists Copyright Society. PLS is owned by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, the Periodical Publishers Association, and the Publishers Association. It also works closely with the Association of Online Publishers, European Publishers Council, Federation of European Publishers, Independent Publishers Guild, International Publishers Association, and STM.

USA

• Basic Principles For Managing Intellectual Property In The Digital Environment (National Humanities Alliance) March 24, 1997 (US)
• Before WIPO Treaties are Ratified, Congress Should Adopt Comprehensive and Balanced Implementing Legislation. Statement by the Digital Future Coalition (DFC) (US)
• ALA Washington Office Conference on Fair Use Joint Statement Released (US)
• Conference on Fair Use of Copyrighted Works Concludes Without Consensus; Educators, Scholars, Librarians to Explore Next Steps. Statement endorsed by 14 US national organisations. (US)
• CONFU Continues? Is it time to re-group? by David Green (NINCH Newsletter No. 5, News Brief)
• Copyright Collectives and Libraries.  Lesley Ellen Harris.  This article is published in The Copyright & New Media Law Newsletter: For Librarians & Information Specialists, Vol. 2, Issue 1, Spring 1998.  McGraw Hill Ryerson.
• Copyright Crash Course.  Georgia Harper, University of Texas System (US)
• Copyright clearance and digitisation in UK Higher Education: Supporting Study for the JISC/PA Clearance Mechanisms Working Party - Joint Information Systems Committee and the Publishers Association (An eLib Project) (UK)
• Copyright and the Electronic Reserve System - policy and guidelines from Northwestern University Library
• Copyright Law and Electronic Reserves, Georgia Harper, Office of General Counsel, University of Texas System (US)
• Copyright and Intellectual Property - resources compiled by the Association of Research Libraries. (US)
• Copyright Protection Is for Dinosaurs, by Stewart Alsop.  (FORTUNE.com) (US)
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Status & Analysis - Association of Research Libraries (US)
• H.R. 3048 - "Digital Era Copyright Enhancement Act." Representatives Boucher and Campbell Introduce Comprehensive and Balanced Copyright Legislation - Section-by-Section Analysis. (Digital Futures Coalition) (US)
• EFF "Intellectual Property Online: Patent, Trademark, Copyright" Archive - Electronic Frontier Foundation (US)
• Electronic Commerce and Intellectual Property - Protect Revenues, Not Bits - Branko J. Gerovac, David C. Carver, and Richard J. Solomon, a white paper presented to "Technology-Based Intellectual Property Management" A Forum Organized by the Interactive Multimedia Association in cooperation with the U.S. Copyright Office March 7, 1996 MIT Research Program on Communications Policy, Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
• The good, bad, ugly of copyright law rewrites. Copyright 1998 by David Loundy (Published in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, January 8, 1998 at page 5.)
• The Information Economy: The Economics of the Internet, Information Goods, Intellectual Property and Related Issues, by Hal R. Varian (School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California Berkeley)
• Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure The Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights (USA)
• Text version
• PDF version (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• Legally Speaking: The NII Intellectual Property Report by Pamela Samuelson, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh
• The Copyright Grab ALERT Stop the Clinton Copyright Grab! The Administration's white paper on intellectual property in the digital era is a wholesale giveaway of the public's rights. By Pamela Samuelson
• Licensing Electronic Resources:  Strategic and Practical Considerations for Signing Electronic Information Delivery Agreements   (Association of Research Libraries)  (US)
• The MDS Decision and Fair Use for Coursepacks March 5, 1996 Prepared for the Association of Research Libraries by Kenneth D. Crews
• Princeton University Press v. Michigan Document Services, Inc.: Notes from rehearing en banc before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 12, 1996, by Kenneth D. Crews ( Associate Professor of Law and Library and Information Science, Director, Copyright Management Center, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis)
• Principles for Licensing Electronic Resources. Statement by American Association of Law Libraries, American Library Association, Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries,    Association of Research Libraries, Medical Library Association, Special Libraries Association (FINAL DRAFT July 15, 1997) (US)

Proposals to Regulate the Public's Rights to use Information stored in Databases (Proposal that is before the U.S. Congress and the World Intellectual Property Organizaiton (WIPO). (Public-Domain)
• Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decisions and State Governments' Sovereign Immunity for Infringement of Patent and Trademark Rights - Analysis by Arnie Lutzker (July 2, 1999) (US)
• Report on Copyright and Digital Distance Education.  U.S. Copyright Office.  May 1999 (US)
• Summary of U.S. Copyright Office Report on Distance Education.  Prepared by the  Copyright Management Center  Kenneth D. Crews,  Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (US)
• Association of American Universities Research Libraries Project in collaboration with the Association of Research Libraries Reports of the AAU Task Forces on:
• Acquisition and Distribution of Foreign Language and Area Studies Materials
• A National Strategy for Managing Scientific and Technological Information
• Intellectual Property Rights in an Electronic Environment
• The National Federation of Abstracting & Information Services. The Rights & Responsibilities of Content Creators, Providers, and Users: A White Paper. December 9, 1997 (US)
• Statement on Behalf of The American Association of Law Libraries, The American Library Association, The Association of Research Libraries, The Medical Library Association, and The Special Libraries Association on H.R. 2441 (NII Copyright Protection Act of 1995)
• Summary of Issues and Proposals to Amend the NII Copyright Protection Act (DIGITAL FUTURE COALITION)
• UCC Article 2B: Some Preliminary Comments on a New Issue for the Library Community  by Robert L. Oakley (Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code of critical importance to the use of licenses as a mechanism for the acquisition of information)

CANADA

• Canadian Copyright Law, by Lesley Ellen Harris ISBN 0-07-552547-X, $22.95 CDN Copyright 1996 McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited
• Stakeholders divided over copyright bill. Should the Senate strive for a last-minute compromise? By Howard Knopf. (Canada's copyright amendment effort, Bill C-32)

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