Australian Society of Authors
The Commonwealth Government released the final Report of the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) Inquiry into copyright and the digital economy on Thursday 13 February, 2014.
Importantly for the nation’s literary creators the Report reverses the ALRC’s earlier Discussion Paper proposal to remove the Copyright Act’s statutory licences for education and government – the means by which authors and illustrators are remunerated for copying of their work – and instead now recommends their retention.
However, the Report also recommends …

