recycling

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.