{"id":6498,"date":"2017-04-27T16:33:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T16:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/04\/27\/australian-government-removes-safe-harbour-reform-from-copyright-amendment-bill\/"},"modified":"2017-04-27T16:33:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T16:33:35","slug":"australian-government-removes-safe-harbour-reform-from-copyright-amendment-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2017\/04\/27\/australian-government-removes-safe-harbour-reform-from-copyright-amendment-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Government Removes Safe Harbour Reform From Copyright Amendment Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"normal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/88\/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg\/800px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" height=\"109\" \/><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normal\">The Australian government has dropped plans to extend safe harbours in  its revision of the country&#8217;s copyright laws. The copyright safe harbour  provisions currently in Australian legislation are defined to only  protect Internet service providers.  <!--more-->  The Australian Government had proposed to have these provisions  broadened to bring them in line with what is available in the US and  Europe, which provide for a broader safety net for copyright  infringement by a service&#8217;s users, and which are currently being  examined in light of growing concern over their suitability.<\/p>\n<p> However,  the wider safe harbour provisions have been removed from the Copyright Amendment Bill in Australia for now.<\/p>\n<p> General Manager of the Australasian Music Publishers Association  (AMPAL), Matthew O&#8217;Sullivan said: &#8220;We urge the Federal Government to  refer any proposed copyright safe harbour amendment to the Department of  Communications and the Arts for a comprehensive review and  evidence-based inquiry; and full consultation with the creative  industries.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normal\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normal\">Source: <\/span><br \/><span class=\"normal\">Australasian Music Publishers Association <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian government has dropped plans to extend safe harbours in its revision of 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-6498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498","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=6498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}