Copyright (New Technologies and Performers' Rights) Amendment Bill

The Copyright (New Technologies and Performers' Rights) Amendment Bill was introduced into Parliament on 4 December 2006. The Bill has been referred to Select Committee for study over the Parliamentary summer recess.

Submissions close on 16 February 2007.  The Bill covers issues such as format shifting, time shifting and technological protection measures. It has a number of parallels to the Australian Copyright Amendment Bill 2006.  It also repeals the previous categories of television broadcast and cable programme and replaces these with a broad category of communication work.

There has also been some adjustment to the permitted uses in Part III of the Act to cater for digital works and the new communication right.