The ADA welcomes the Government’s goal of modernising the Copyright Act to ensure it is effective, efficient and sufficiently adaptable to cope with changes in economic conditions, technology, markets and the costs of innovating. The ADA strongly believes that the best and only way to do this is to introduce a fair use exception into Australian law. In addition, to ensure the full effect of the important public policy decisions of the Australian Government, all exceptions in the Copyright Act should be explicitly protected from being overruled by contract.