Remove the buy-local tax on books

This discretionary quota on books maintains local margins for the global book publishers and printers at the cost of readers and competitive Australian publishing. Now maybe—at last—we will see a more aggressive release of electronic titles ('Kindle books') in Australia. Welcome to the 21st century.

Piracy and privacy

The French Assemblée Nationale is today expected to adopt a uniquely invasive measure authorizing a 'High Authority' to monitor the Internet use of individuals for copyright violation.

French internet law blocked, for now

"The UMP [President Sarkozy's center-right majority party] appears to want to erase this setback by sending the bill back to a vote as soon as possible. 'The negative vote in the Assembly slows the adoption of the text, but doesn't stop it. We will resubmit the text with a (full) reading of the bill in both…

Was the Pirate Bay judgement biassed?

The decision will likely have no impact on the sharing of copyright material. There are hundreds of torrent aggregators and probably thousands of different ways to disguise the sharing of digital files. The Pirate Bay case is interesting mainly for its legal findings that broaden the responsibility of what are, in effect, search engines for the…

Manufacturing copyright ‘consensus’

Geist shows how three Canadian entertainment industry organizations have manufactured the appearance of widening concern over copyright piracy and growing evidence of its impact.