Intellectual Property

Intellectual property is the overarching term relating to the development and ownership of the physical manifestations of intellectual activity. In Australia intellectual property encompasses ownership and management of patents, trademarks, designs, copyright, circuit layout rights, plant breeders rights, and trade secrets.

Copyright

Copyright protection is for original material in literary, artistic, dramatic or musical works, films, broadcasts, multimedia and computer programs.

Digital Rights Management

Standardisation for intellectual property in web-based environments includes electronic copyright management systems and is typically referred to as Digital Rights Management.

27 items in this category.

1. Australian Copyright Council
   Category: Intellectual Property
   
   An independent non-profit organisation, aiming to increase knowledge and acceptance of copyright, and to influence changes to law and policy to benefit creators and copyright owners. Publications, information sheets, training, events, and news can be accessed from the site.
   
   

2. Australian Intellectual Property Law Resources
   Category: Intellectual Property
   
   Describes Internet resources relating to Australian Intellectual Property Law.
   
   

3. Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP)
   Category: Intellectual Property
   
   ACAP is being developed as an industry standard to enable the providers of all types of content published on the World Wide Web to communicate permissions information (relating to access and use of that content) in a form that can be automatically recognized and interpreted, so that business partners can systematically comply with the publishers' policies. ACAP will be an open standard and welcomes comments and suggestions.
   
   

4. Copyright (University of California)
   Category: Intellectual Property
   
   University of California has a systemwide resource for academic copyright issues. The UC Copyright Education web site was created to improve the quality and delivery of copyright information, education, and support services to the UC community. The copyright web site provides information on such general issues as ownership, fair use, and the public domain, as well as information specific to the digital environment. Additionally, it provides directories and guides to University and campus copyright policies and resources.
   
   

5. Copyright Agency Limited (CAL)
   Category: Intellectual Property
   
   Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) is a not-for-profit company that centrally manages the copyright interests of thousands of Australian publishers and authors, including print journalists.
   
   

6. Creative Commons
   Category: Intellectual Property
   
   Creative Commons a non-profit corporation, founded in 2001 with the support of the Center for the Public Domain (US). The organisation promotes the innovative reuse of all sorts of intellectual works. Its first project was to offer the public a set of copyright licenses free of charge.
   
   

7. Digital Object Identifier System
   Category: Intellectual Property
   
   The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a system for identifying and exchanging intellectual property in the digital environment. It provides a framework for managing intellectual content, for linking customers with content suppliers, for facilitating electronic commerce, and enabling automated copyright management for all types of media. Using DOIs makes managing intellectual property in a networked environment much easier and more convenient, and allows the construction of automated services and transactions for e-commerce. A DOI is different from commonly used pointers to material such as the URL -- Uniform Resource Locator, the usual means of referring to World Wide Web material -- because it identifies an object, not the place where the object is located.
   
   

8. Digital Rights Management in the Higher Education Sector
   Category: Intellectual Property
   
   This study investigates Digital Rights Management (DRM) relates to the emerging online learning environments within the Australian higher education sector. The primary aims of the study are to: develop a coherent strategic approach to addressing a range of DRM issues relating to the development of new DRM-enabled managed learning and information environments for the higher education sector; produce a high-level blue-print for DRM architectures applicable across all education sectors; and enhance and promote Australia's ability to contribute to the IMS and other relevant international standards-setting processes.
   
   

9. Emerging Licence Models in the Schools Sector: National Education Access Licence for Schools (NEALS) [presentation]
   Category: Intellectual Property
   
   This presentation by Delia Browne, National Copyright Director for MCEETYA, at the 2006 Unlocking Intellectual Property conference discusses emerging licence models in the school sector, in particular the National Education Access Licence for Schools (NEALS). NEALS is a royalty free licence between the education departments of the various states and territories that aims to have all education authorities to grant a free for education licence to each other to their own material. It is designed to allow schools and education departments to copy freely from each other's websites and publications and is part of the Smart Copying initiative to cut copying costs in schools.
   
   

10. Entering the Digital Age: Fair use and other copyright exceptions
    Category: Intellectual Property
    
    

    This AVCC Submission to the Attorney-General?s Department is an examination of fair use, fair dealing and other exceptions. The paper argues that the balance between the interests of copyright owners and users has, in recent years, moved in favour of owners as a result of the current regime?s failure to keep up with technological change. It says that the Government needs to restore the balance of interests between copyright owners and users by introducing a dynamic fair dealing system which is capable of keeping pace with technological change, and which reflects community expectations and practices. To do this, Australia needs a fair use provision, an extended range of fair dealing exceptions, and a resolution of anomalies in the existing provisions.

    
    
    

11. GNU General Public License
    Category: Intellectual Property
    
    The licenses are designed to make sure that users have the freedom to distribute copies of free software, can receive source code, can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs. The licenses were designed by GNU Project, launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software: the GNU system. Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the kernel Linux, are now widely used; though these systems are often referred to as Linux, they are more accurately called GNU/Linux systems.
    
    

12. Government Information Licensing Framework (GILF)
    Category: Intellectual Property
    
    The Government Information Licensing Framework (GILF) makes it easy for people who use public sector information (PSI) to understand the rights of use associated with PSI material. GILF comprises a simple open content licensing framework, designed to assist in the management of government intellectual property, and encourage the use of PSI through increased availability and accessibility. GILF encourages custodians to think more broadly about the potential users of PSI and contains guidelines for agencies preparing information for publication or distribution. In turn, it enables customers to understand how they can re-use PSI in a legally appropriate way.
    
    

13. Intellectual Property Rights Management (PADI)
    Category: Intellectual Property
    
    This topic from the National Library of Australia's Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) initiative deals with the intellectual property rights and copyright issues which relate to preserving access to digital information.
    
    

14. Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc.
    Category: Intellectual Property
    
    An independent body, providing a forum for the dissemination and discussion of intellectual property matters. The site provides information about the organisation's objectives, membership, conferences and news.
    
    

15. InterTrust Technologies
    Category: Intellectual Property
    
    Intertrust develops and licenses intellectual property for Digital Rights Management (DRM) and trusted computing.
    
    

16. IP Australia
    Category: Intellectual Property
    
    IP Australia's role is to provide a strong intellectual property system which promotes innovation, investment and trade. Generally, IP Australia focuses on ensuring that the Australian IP and International IP system meets Australian business needs. Information about patents, trade marks, designs and plant breeder's rights.
    
    

17. Learn from the Past, Create the Future - The Arts and Copyright
    Category: Intellectual Property
    
    A copyright guide for children from the World Intellectual Property Organisation.
    
    

18. MPEG-21 - Coding of Moving Pictures and Audio
    Category: Intellectual Property
    
    MPEG-21 is an open framework for multimedia delivery and consumption, with both the content creator and content consumer as focal points. This open framework provides content creators and service providers with equal opportunities in the MPEG-21 enabled open market.
    
    

19. National copyright guidelines (Smartcopying)
    Category: Intellectual Property
    
    Copyright information sheets for schools. The sheets include information about podcasting, learning management systems, creative commons resources.
    
    

20. National copyright guidelines (Smartcopying)
    Category: Intellectual Property
    
    Copyright information sheets for schools. The sheets include information about podcasting, learning management systems, creative commons resources.
    
    

21. Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL)
    Category: Intellectual Property
    
    

    The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) provides the semantics for a Digital Rights Management expression language and data dictionary pertaining to all forms of content. The ODRL is a vocabulary for the expression of terms and conditions over content including permissions, constraints, obligations, conditions, offers and agreements with rights holders. The ODRL is positioned to be extended by different industry sectors (eg ebooks, music, video, mobile, learning objects, software, etc) and to be a core interoperability language. ODRL is freely available and has no licensing requirements.

    
    
    

22. Open Knowledge Definition: defining the open in open data, open content and open information
    Category: Intellectual Property
    
    The Open Knowledge Definition (OKD) sets out principles to define the 'open' in open knowledge. The term knowledge is used broadly and it includes all forms of data, content such as music, films or books as well any other type of information. In the simplest form the definition can be summed up in the statement that "A piece of knowledge is open if you are free to use, reuse, and redistribute it". The open knowledge definition is itself developed in an open manner and anyone can participate.
    
    

23. Open Mobile Alliance
    Category: Intellectual Property
    
    The charter for the Open Mobile Alliance is to deliver responsive and high-quality open standards and specifications based upon market and customer requirements; establish centers of excellence for best practices and conduct interoperability testing (IOT), including multi-standard interoperability to ensure seamless user experience; create and promote common industry view on an architectural framework and be the catalyst for the consolidation of standards fora; working in conjunction with other existing standards organizations and groups such as IETF, 3GPP, 3GPP2, W3C, JCP
    
    

24. Open Mobile Alliance
    Category: Intellectual Property
    
    The charter for the Open Mobile Alliance is to deliver responsive and high-quality open standards and specifications based upon market and customer requirements; establish centers of excellence for best practices and conduct interoperability testing (IOT), including multi-standard interoperability to ensure seamless user experience; create and promote common industry view on an architectural framework and be the catalyst for the consolidation of standards fora; working in conjunction with other existing standards organizations and groups such as IETF, 3GPP, 3GPP2, W3C, JCP
    
    

25. Rights management specification
    Category: Intellectual Property
    
    The Le@rning Federation rights management specification is based national and international best practice in the emerging area of digital rights management. It is based on ensuring that the Le@rning Federation curriculum content will meet with relevant statutory and contractual obligations, and optimise the creation, trade and usage of online content.
    
    

26. Snapshot study on the use of open content licences in the UK cultural heritage sector
    Category: Intellectual Property
    
    Survey of awareness and use of open content licences in the UK cultural heritage community conducted in 2007. A range of permissions for use and re-use of works such as images, sounds, video, and text, often described as a 'some rights reserved' approach to copyright. Respondents include museums, libraries, galleries, archives, TV and radio broadcasters and film societies.
    
    

27. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
    Category: Intellectual Property
    
    

    Information on the international protection of industrial property in both industrialised and developing nations is offered here. Information is available on the many international conventions and treaties dealing with the issues of copyright, patents, and intellectual property.