fair use

Recycling or Piggybacking? Emerging Technology and ‘Fair Use’:

Recycling or Piggybacking? Emerging Technology and ‘Fair Use’:

We’ve previously highlighted how Copyright law in Australia is in a sense ‘broken’ as it fails to keep pace with emerging technologies. What is considered as the biggest flaw in copyright law in this country is the lack of a ‘fair use’ defence to copyright infringement, which covers the ‘recycling’ of content, where it is repurposed or modified by another author.

REMIX! Australia's Copyright Law is Broken:

REMIX! Australia's Copyright Law is Broken:

Technology is constantly changing, evolving and reinventing itself and at an ever increasing pace. It's amazing, inspiring and something that you have to keep pace with. Unfortunately it moves so quick, that quite often the law can't keep up with it.