News : May 2005

Fair use - Have your say

AUSTRALIA -- Charles Wright, in his venerable column in The Age, states that " Australian legislators have imposed what is arguably the most user-unfriendly copyright regime in the Western world." You can change this by participating in the democratic process...

Paper call - IP: Issues and Ethics

BRISBANE -- Policy Futures in Education (ISSN 1478-2103) is an international, peer-reviewed online-only journal that is committed to promoting debate on education among policy analysts, researchers, and practitioners from national and international forums, including members of policy think-tanks and world...

CC down under

BRISBANE -- Creative Commons Australia have produced an animation explaining the virtues of its licensing schemes. The clip can be downloaded from Lawrence Lessig's site. http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002896.shtml...

Student forced to shut down blog after libel threat

SINGAPORE -- Reporters Without Borders expressed support for a student from Singapore forced to shut down his blog on 26 April for fear of a libel action by the head of a government body and warned that "such intimidation could...