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     2000 -

This page highlights intellectual property landmarks in Australia and overseas since 1999.

It covers -

• 2000
• 2002
• 2004
• 2006

It supplements the separate profile on Australian court and tribunal decisions regarding copyright and notes on patents, trademarks and designs.

Context is provided by the multi-page communications & media timeline on this site.

     2000

Commonwealth Parliament Cracking Down on Copycats: enforcement of copyright in Australia report

Intellectual Property & Competition Review (IPCR) Committee in Australia

Grain Pool of Western Australia v Commonwealth case

Australian Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Act 2000

Australian Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000

Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. v. Connectix Corp decision in US on reverse engineering

Frankel releases Gnutella

Australian corporations legislation amended to protect national icon Sir Donald Bradman

     2001

'Panel Case' in Australia about fair dealing in broadcasts

Australian Digital Agenda Act comes into effect

Australian Moral Rights legislation comes into effect

EU Directive on Copyright & Related Rights In The Information Society

Kabushiki Kaisha Sony v Stevens anticircumvention case in Australia

     2002

US Supreme Court hears Eldred v Ashcroft case about copyright term extension

New Zealand Trademarks Act replaces 1953 legislation

     2003

US Supreme Court upholds constitutionality of CTEA ('Sonny Bono Act') in Eldred v Ashcroft decision

music IPR owners litigate against Australian universities over music file sharing

     2004

copyright owners gain Anton Piller orders for raid in Australia on KaZaA (Sharman Networks) and Brilliant Digital Entertainment

     2005

US Supreme Court rules that distributors of file-swapping software can be held liable for copyright infringement

Stephen Cooper (MP3s4free.net) and Australian ISP Comcen found guilty of copyright infringement by Federal Court, having breached Australian law by creating hyperlinks to sites that had infringing sound recordings

Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd v Sharman License Holdings Ltd (Kazaa decision)

UNESCO Convention on the Protection & Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions

     2006

Meskenas v ACP Publishing moral rights case in Australia

'private copying' and other amendments to Copyright Act

     2007

Zoltek v US in US Supreme Court

WIPO Copyright Treaty and WIPO Performances & Phonograms Treaty come into effect in Australia

Burge v Swarbrick in Aust High Court

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