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An independent non-profit organisation, aiming to increase knowledge and acceptance of copyright, and to influence changes to law and policy to benefit creators and copyright owners. Publications, information sheets, training, events, and news can be accessed from the site.

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Describes Internet resources relating to Australian Intellectual Property Law.

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ACAP is being developed as an industry standard to enable the providers of all types of content published on the World Wide Web to communicate permissions information (relating to access and use of that content) in a form that can be automatically recognized and interpreted, so that business partners can systematically comply with the publishers' policies. ACAP will be an open standard and welcomes comments and suggestions.

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University of California has a systemwide resource for academic copyright issues. The UC Copyright Education web site was created to improve the quality and delivery of copyright information, education, and support services to the UC community. The copyright web site provides information on such general issues as ownership, fair use, and the public domain, as well as information specific to the digital environment. Additionally, it provides directories and guides to University and campus copyright policies and resources.

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Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) is a not-for-profit company that centrally manages the copyright interests of thousands of Australian publishers and authors, including print journalists.

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Copyright and Intellectual property have emerged as major issues affecting the use of the web and distributed resources. The MCEETYA ICT Schools Taskforce has developed the Copyright Aware website as a source of news, ideas and resources for schools on responsible information use and copyright law. The website summarises the legal aspects of copyright into some simple and easy to understand pages.

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Creative Commons a non-profit corporation, founded in 2001 with the support of the Center for the Public Domain (US). The organisation promotes the innovative reuse of all sorts of intellectual works. Its first project was to offer the public a set of copyright licenses free of charge.

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The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a system for identifying and exchanging intellectual property in the digital environment. It provides a framework for managing intellectual content, for linking customers with content suppliers, for facilitating electronic commerce, and enabling automated copyright management for all types of media. Using DOIs makes managing intellectual property in a networked environment much easier and more convenient, and allows the construction of automated services and transactions for e-commerce. A DOI is different from commonly used pointers to material such as the URL -- Uniform Resource Locator, the usual means of referring to World Wide Web material -- because it identifies an object, not the place where the object is located.

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This study investigates Digital Rights Management (DRM) relates to the emerging online learning environments within the Australian higher education sector. The primary aims of the study are to: develop a coherent strategic approach to addressing a range of DRM issues relating to the development of new DRM-enabled managed learning and information environments for the higher education sector; produce a high-level blue-print for DRM architectures applicable across all education sectors; and enhance and promote Australia's ability to contribute to the IMS and other relevant international standards-setting processes.

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This AVCC Submission to the Attorney-General?s Department is an examination of fair use, fair dealing and other exceptions. The paper argues that the balance between the interests of copyright owners and users has, in recent years, moved in favour of owners as a result of the current regime?s failure to keep up with technological change. It says that the Government needs to restore the balance of interests between copyright owners and users by introducing a dynamic fair dealing system which is capable of keeping pace with technological change, and which reflects community expectations and practices. To do this, Australia needs a fair use provision, an extended range of fair dealing exceptions, and a resolution of anomalies in the existing provisions.