{"id":5348,"date":"2015-07-01T06:26:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T06:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/07\/01\/australia-welcomes-passing-of-the-australian-copyright-amendment-bill\/"},"modified":"2015-07-01T06:26:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T06:26:44","slug":"australia-welcomes-passing-of-the-australian-copyright-amendment-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/07\/01\/australia-welcomes-passing-of-the-australian-copyright-amendment-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Welcomes Passing Of The Australian Copyright Amendment Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/88\/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg\/1280px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" height=\"109\" \/><br \/><span class=\"normal\">APRA AMCOS has welcomed the passing of the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill through the Senate. In passing the Bill, the Government and Opposition have jointly  acknowledged the damage caused by online copyright infringement to  Australia&#8217;s creative industries, recognizing the mass scale on which  illegal downloading occurs and the need to implement efficient and  effective ways for right holders to protect their work.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p> The Bill will enable rights holders to seek injunctions in the Federal  Court to block access to overseas websites such as The Pirate Bay and  Kickass Torrents that unlawfully distribute their music.<\/p>\n<p> APRA AMCOS CEO Brett Cottle AM who was involved in a special Senate  Committee Hearing to investigate the merits of the Bill has warmly  welcomed its passing:<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It will give to creative industries a means to fight back, it will  assist in changing the behaviour of Australian consumers and, most  importantly, it will send a powerful, practical and symbolic message to  the artists and creators of Australia. &#8220;Australia&#8217;s creative industries  have been waiting for a very long time for Parliament to provide an  expression of support and respect for their work and their place in the  life of the nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> APRA AMCOS is satisfied that the new copyright Bill takes into account  the need to protect the interests of their 87,000+ Australian and New  Zealand songwriter and composer members. The passing of the Bill caps  off months of lobbying to the Federal Government and Opposition by a  coalition of creative arts and media organisations working together. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <span class=\"normal\">APRA AMCOS<br \/>Image credit:\u00a0 Creative Common License<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APRA AMCOS has welcomed the passing of the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill through the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}