With only five days left to secure early bird rates, the program for the ADA Forum is looking sensational. 

We are delighted to welcome the Minister responsible for copyright, the Attorney-General and Minister for the Arts the Hon George Brandis QC, to open the forum. 

Fair use for the Future: A practical look at copyright reform

Registrations have opened for the ADA Forum 2014 to be held at the National Library of Australia on February 14 2014

As the Trans-Pacific Partnership looks close to being settled, the warning bells over the Intellectual Property Chapter are getting louder.  With Wikileaks’ publication of a leaked version of the negotiating text, we finally have some firm knowledge about what is at stake.  Notably we can now see the push, particularly from the US, for provisions that not just go further than TRIPS and ACTA, but further than the restrictive copyright provisions Australia agreed to under the Australian-US Free Trade Agreement (AUSTFA).