Latest Google Settlement
Amended Google Settlement November 2009 :
- Executive Summary
- flowchart:"What Do You Want To Do"
- flowchart:"What Can Google Do With Your Books"
REGULATORY REGIME FOR BOOKS TO REMAIN UNCHANGED (FED)
November 2009
The Government has decided not to change the Australian regulatory regime for books introduced by the previous Labor government. Australian book printing and publishing is under strong competitive pressure from international online booksellers such as Amazon and The Book Depository and the Government has formed the view that that this pressure is likely to intensify. In addition, the technology of electronic books (e-books) like Kindle Books will continue to improve with further innovations and price reductions expected. The Government has not accepted the Productivity Commission's recommendation to remove the parallel importation restrictions on books.
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Revised imprint page notices
Revised imprint page notices for use on schools material are now available to members. These notices have been prepared by the APA Schools Educational Publishing Committee in conjunction with the Copyright Agency Limited and are provided as a free service to APA members. Members are under no obligation to use the suggested notices but are welcome to use them as they see fit.
Similar notices were made available to members a few years ago. Changes have been made to the notices and these reflect changes in copyright law since that time.
There is one new suggested notice which is for an educational book, where the whole book has a publisher's licence to copy for an individual teacher. It relates to those books other than BLM books where the publisher permits an individual teacher to (only) photocopy the complete book.
Joint APA, STM and ALPSP submission into the Productivity Commission:
Public support for Science and Innovation Report
December 2007
In collaboration with the STM (Scientific Technical and Medical) Journal Publishers and ALPSP (Association of Learned Professional and Society Publishers) a submission was made on 19 December to the Productivity Commission Report on Public Support for Science and Innovation where the argument for Open Access was canvassed. This concept has the potential to destroy the technical, professional and scholarly journal publisher businesses, thus impacting on some of our APA members. Similarly there is another paper commissioned by the Department of Education Science and Training titled "Research Communication Costs in Australia: Emerging Opportunities and Benefits" that advances a similar concept. The APA advances the proposition that the current publishers in this field provide a high quality, well organised service that is valued and requires strict peer review.
Covering Letter
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Scientific Publishing In Transition: an overview of current developments
Print Disability and Copyright: What Publishers Need to Know
People with print disabilities cannot read printed or text material, either because they cannot see the text, cannot hold a book or turn pages, or have a "perceptual" disability such as dyslexia. Obviously, they cannot read text unless it is copied into a format accessible to them.
Publishers, and other copyright owners, need to be aware of print disability issues for a number of reasons...
Read the rest of this article by Helen Dakin, Senior Legal Officer at the Australian Copyright Council.
