Volume 6 Issue 1

Copyright in Australia's 'New Communications Environment':
Convergence, Transmission Rights and the Internet

Julian Thomas*

In this article the author examines the recommendations made by the Australian Government's Copyright Convergence Group in its paper titled: "Highways to Change: Copyright in the New Communications Environment." He considers that the group has taken a narrow view of what constitutes the 'new communications environment' and as a consequence its programme for reforming the copyright laws of Australia does not meet the challenge of technological change.