Shigeki Kamiyama, Jerry Sheehan and Catalina Martinez examine recent evidence and review macroeconomic statistics related to the development of technology markets. They survey approaches to the valuation of patents and the policy initiatives undertaken by OECD countries to foster patent valuation and exploitation.

Issues paper on the application of fair use and copyright in a digital environment. Released May 2005

Changes to the Copyright Act 1968 and Patents Act 1990 form a significant and complex part of the Bill to implement the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement. But the agreement does leave some room for Australia to decide the shape of its own law, so implementation inevitably involves making substantive policy choices. In this guide Jacob...

The Australian Government is committed to ensuring the sustainability and vitality of Australia’s visual arts and craft sector. As a direct result of this commitment, the Government commissioned Mr Rupert Myer to conduct the Contemporary Visual Arts and Craft Inquiry. The Report of the Inquiry⎯known as the Myer Report⎯was released in September 2002.

The purpose of this paper is to comment upon the relationship between MPs and copyright law and to analyse the impact of the law of parliamentary privilege upon it. That relationship can be approached from at least three perspectives which can be categorised as the 'governmental', 'parliamentary' and 'private'.