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Remaking the Maker Movement – 3rd February 2021

Remaking the Maker Movement QUT Faculty of Business and Law Wednesday, 3 February 2021 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Z1064, Gibson Room, Level 10, Z Block QUT Gardens Point Campus OVERVIEW This event will focus on the role of innovation spaces — such as makerspaces, Fab Labs, hackerspaces, TechShop, and innovation hubs, incubators, and accelerators. […]

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Afraid to Lead: Canadian Government Launches Timid Consultation on Implementing Copyright Term Extension

[Michael Geist] After years of rejecting copyright term extension beyond the international law standard of life of the author plus 50 years, the Canadian government caved to pressure from the United States by agreeing to the equivalent of life of the author plus 70 years in the U.S.-Canada-Mexico Trade Agreement (USMCA). As part of that agreement, Canada obtained a 30
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Intellectual Property in the EU–MERCOSUR FTA: A Brief Review of the Negotiating Outcomes of a Long-Awaited Agreement

[Roxana Blasetti and Juan I. Correa] This paper provides a first glance at the Intellectual Property Chapter of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) and the European Union (EU). It is not intended to provide an exhaustive analysis of the commitments involved but rather to briefly review the scope of intellectual property in the bi-regional
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CASE Act: Good or Bad News for Filmmakers?

[AU Center for Media and Social Impact] In December, the CASE Act (for Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement) was quietly slipped into must-pass legislation. Pushed heavily by large copyright holders and batted down by copyright-flexibility advocates for years, it is now law. It could affect how creators of all kinds, including filmmakers, experience the employment of fair use in practice.
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Australian Link Code May Violate Berne Convention and Provoke Trade Litigation

[Jonathan Band and Sean Flynn] Next week, the Australian Parliament is set to vote on the “News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code” (“Code”). The Code has been a top lobbying priority of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which dominates the news industry in Australia. The Code is incredibly worrisome from an international copyright law perspective, as it is the
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Fair Use in Practice: South Korean Film Directors’ Copyright Understanding

[Yoonmo Sang, Patricia Aufderheide, Minjeong Kim] Abstract: This study, based on a survey of 100 South Korean film directors, investigates their understanding and employment of fair use. South Korean film directors are largely unaware of this law that could improve their capacity to create work more effectively and at lower cost. Furthermore, they engage in self-censorship, which can limit their
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