The Australian Digital Alliance (ADA) is an Australian non-profit coalition of public and private sector interests, formed to promote balanced copyright law by providing a voice for the public interest perspective in debates about copyright change and reform. The ADA engages with government through submissions, lobbying, and media activities.
The ADA works closely with its sister organisation, the Australian Libraries Copyright Committee (ALCC). The ALCC is the main consultative body and policy forum for the discussion of copyright issues affecting Australian libraries. It develops policy and advocates action appropriate for the role of libraries as information providers and preservers in Australia. The two bodies share a copyright adviser, and generally make joint submissions to government.
IceTV Pty Ltd v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd (2009)edit
The Nine Network sued IceTV for copyright infringement after IceTV used parts of Nine Network's programme schedules for its electronic program guide. The case raised questions about the threshold of the originality requirement for copyright, and the nature of the protection for compilations (collections of facts) in Australia.
The ADA was granted leave by the High Court of Australia to intervene as a friend of the court. The ADA's submissions outlined the importance of public interest considerations and the implications that this case could have on copyright users.
The High Court found in favour of IceTV, with the joint judgment of Gummow, Hayne and Heydon making reference to the ADA's submissions.[1] The High Court recognised the importance of maintaining a robust public domain which allows people and organisations to use, re-use and build on materials to produce innovative new works.
A User’s Guide to the Flexible Dealing Provisionedit
Together with the ALCC, the ADA produced a handbook on the new flexible dealing provision of the Copyright Act (section 200AB). The handbook outlines how the provision operates and provides examples to assist libraries, archives, galleries and educational institutions to take advantage of the provision and use copyright materials.
The formal launch of the handbook was attended by ADA members, senior public servants, and other copyright figures. The is available for free download under Creative Commons license.
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreementedit
Significantly increased intermediary responsibility, among other things, is currently the subject of negotiations in the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The ADA encouraged greater transparency by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) regarding the progress of its negotiations.
The ADA formed a coalition with other concerned organisations including Choice, the Australian Library and Information Association, and the Internet Industry Association. The coalition was involved in a number of government meetings, and submitted a joint statement of to DFAT.
The submission agreed that reducing counterfeiting is important where it endangers consumer health or safety, or constitutes commercial scale infringement. However, the coalition urged that pursuit of that goal should not threaten legitimate commercial, social, innovative and creative activities, the rights of consumers or the free flow of information. The coalition noted the current proposed treaty raised concerns with respect to transparency, increased customs search powers, increased penalties for IP infringement, and lack of due process.
Referencesedit
^IceTV Pty Limited v Nine Network Australia Pty Limited [2009] HCA 14 11 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine.
External linksedit
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This article has multiple issues Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page Learn how and when to remove these template messages This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Australian Digital Alliance news newspapers books scholar JSTOR November 2009 Learn how and when to remove this template message This article relies excessively on references to primary sources Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources Find sources Australian Digital Alliance news newspapers books scholar JSTOR November 2009 Learn how and when to remove this template message Learn how and when to remove this template message The Australian Digital Alliance ADA is an Australian non profit coalition of public and private sector interests formed to promote balanced copyright law by providing a voice for the public interest perspective in debates about copyright change and reform The ADA engages with government through submissions lobbying and media activities Australian Digital AllianceTypePublic InterestIndustryCopyright AdvocacyFounded1998 25 years ago 1998 HeadquartersCanberra AustraliaOperating incomeMember ContributionsWebsitewww digital org auThe ADA works closely with its sister organisation the Australian Libraries Copyright Committee ALCC The ALCC is the main consultative body and policy forum for the discussion of copyright issues affecting Australian libraries It develops policy and advocates action appropriate for the role of libraries as information providers and preservers in Australia The two bodies share a copyright adviser and generally make joint submissions to government Contents 1 IceTV Pty Ltd v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd 2009 2 A User s Guide to the Flexible Dealing Provision 3 Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement 4 References 5 External linksIceTV Pty Ltd v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd 2009 editThe Nine Network sued IceTV for copyright infringement after IceTV used parts of Nine Network s programme schedules for its electronic program guide The case raised questions about the threshold of the originality requirement for copyright and the nature of the protection for compilations collections of facts in Australia The ADA was granted leave by the High Court of Australia to intervene as a friend of the court The ADA s submissions outlined the importance of public interest considerations and the implications that this case could have on copyright users The High Court found in favour of IceTV with the joint judgment of Gummow Hayne and Heydon making reference to the ADA s submissions 1 The High Court recognised the importance of maintaining a robust public domain which allows people and organisations to use re use and build on materials to produce innovative new works A User s Guide to the Flexible Dealing Provision editTogether with the ALCC the ADA produced a handbook on the new flexible dealing provision of the Copyright Act section 200AB The handbook outlines how the provision operates and provides examples to assist libraries archives galleries and educational institutions to take advantage of the provision and use copyright materials The formal launch of the handbook was attended by ADA members senior public servants and other copyright figures The Flexible Dealing Handbook is available for free download under Creative Commons license Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement editSignificantly increased intermediary responsibility among other things is currently the subject of negotiations in the proposed Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ACTA The ADA encouraged greater transparency by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade DFAT regarding the progress of its negotiations The ADA formed a coalition with other concerned organisations including Choice the Australian Library and Information Association and the Internet Industry Association The coalition was involved in a number of government meetings and submitted a joint statement of principles for ACTA negotiations to DFAT The submission agreed that reducing counterfeiting is important where it endangers consumer health or safety or constitutes commercial scale infringement However the coalition urged that pursuit of that goal should not threaten legitimate commercial social innovative and creative activities the rights of consumers or the free flow of information The coalition noted the current proposed treaty raised concerns with respect to transparency increased customs search powers increased penalties for IP infringement and lack of due process References edit IceTV Pty Limited v Nine Network Australia Pty Limited 2009 HCA 14 Archived 11 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine External links editAustralian Digital Alliance Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Australian Digital Alliance amp oldid 1183836195, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
