Intellectual property – Making fair dealing fairer in Australia?

The author looks at issues addressed and raised by the report of the Australian Government’s Copyright Law review Committee (CLRC) in September 1988 and explains the continuing need to articulate with reasonable precision the aims and rationale of the fair dealing exceptions. Article by Fiona Macmillan (Associate Professor of Law, Murdoch University, Western Australia; Copyright Director, Asia Pacific Intellectual Property Law Institute) published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.