[LINK] Australia's Digital Economy - Have Your Say

[Tom Koltai]

Thank-you George.

Lines 544-553 states:

Copyright 'Safe Harbours'
In recognition of the key role that ISPs play in providing access to the
internet, Australia's copyright law contains certain so-called 'safe
harbours' for some activities. These were introduced as a result of the
Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA). The safe harbour
scheme provides legal incentives for 'carriage service providers' to
co-operate with copyright owners to deter unauthorised infringement of
copyright material. The scheme applies to four categories of offending
online activity. Broadly, these include providing facilities or services
for transmitting, caching, storing at the direction of the user, and
referring users to an online location using hyperlinks.

This para concerns me greatly. Specifically the words "provides legal
incentives" & "caching, storing at the direction of the user"

Whoever drafted this was most probably on the plaintiffs team in the
case against IINET.

I trust that there will be a few of you/us objecting to this wording in
any subnmissions you might be making before the 11th of Feb.

Tom


> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of George Bray
> Sent: Friday, 19 December 2008 2:43 PM
> To: Link
> Subject: [LINK] Australia's Digital Economy - Have Your Say
> 
> 
> DBCDE, or "Bacardi" as some say, are inviting comments on a 
> number of topics
> including:
> 
> Open Access to Public Sector Information
> Digital Confidence
> Developing Australia's Knowledge and Skills Base
> Ensuring Australia's Regulatory Framework Enables the Digital 
> Economy Digital Economy and the Environment Measuring the 
> Digital Economy and its Impacts
> 
> Industry and other stakeholders are invited to provide input 
> to and comments on the specific topics. Please forward your 
> responses by Wednesday 11 February 2009, clearly indicating 
> any material that is commercial-in-confidence. The Department 
> of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy will 
> collate and edit input for the Digital Economy Future 
> Directions paper before publishing it in the first half of 2009.
> 
> < 
> http://www.dbcde.gov.au/communications_for_business/industry_d
evelopment/digital_economy
>



Happy, safe holidays Linkers!

-- 
George Bray, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
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