Unlocking IP to stimulate Australian innovation: An issues paper

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26 May 2008'Public rights' in intellectual goods (the broad usage of 'the public domain'), are increasingly important as a driver of innovation in information economies. This submission examines ten areas where changes to strengthen or protect Australia's copyright public domain may be desirable to encourage innovation. They are intended to be areas where change is possible within the constraints
of our Constitution and international obligations, rather than impractical areas such as changes to the copyright term.

The ten areas are: The scope for further exceptions to copyright; Legal deposit's role in the public domain; Finding missing rights-holder (orphan works); Enabling open
content licensing to thrive; Maximising the value of free and open source software (FOSS); Moving toward open standards; Coexistence of open content and compulsory licences; Re-usable government works; Public rights in publicly-funded research; and Indigenous culture's relationship to the public domain.

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