Joint submission by the Australian Digital Alliance (ADA) and Australian Libraries Copyright Committee (ALCC) to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) regarding Australasian Performing Rights Association (APRA) application for re-authorisation. In their application, APRA seek a further six year term of authorisation and the revocation of certain findings by the ACCC in 2010.
Joint submission by the ADA and ALCC to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission regarding the Australasian Performing Right Association Draft Determination on Authorisation. It considers the scope of APRA's market power in setting licence fees and terms and conditions for use of copyright music, and the potential anti-competitive detriment that may result.
Submission of the ADA to the Intellectual Property & Competition Review Committee, advocating that copyright law be subject to competition policy analysis.
Joint submission of the ADA and ALCC to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission regarding the Australasian Performing Right Association Ltd (APRA)'s application for authorisation.
Joint submission by the ADA and ALCC to the Code Reviewer re the code of conduct for copyright collecting societies. It comments on the broad and uncertain nature of the code of conduct for collecting societies, and seeks the insertion of further detailed provisions into the Code to guide licensees and collecting societies alike.
Supplementary submissions of the ADA and ALCC on the meaning of the term 'access' in paragraph (a) of the former definition of "technological protection measure" in section 10(1) of the Copyright Act 1968.
The ADA sought leave to intervene as amicus curaie in the High Court in proceedings between Eddy Stevens and Sony Entertainment regarding the the mod-chipping of Sony Playstation consoles. The ADA was successful in its amicus curaie application and made arguments before the High Court regarding the scope of the definition of 'technological protection measure' in section 116A of the Copyright Act.