The Copyright Amendment Act 2006 was passed on 5 December 2006.

The Act includes amendments relating to:

• technological protection measures

• enforcement: criminal penalties and preumptions

• unauthorised reception of encoded broadcasts

• time-shifting, format-shifting and space-shifting

• certain non-commercial activities of libraries, educational institutions, cultural institutions

• people with a disability

• parody and satire

• Copyright Tribunal

The Copyright Amendment Act 2006 received Royal Assent on 11 December 2006. The following schedules are in now in force:

• Schedule 6 (private copying, “special case” exception, fair dealing, parody and satire, libraries)

• Schedule 7 (maker of communication)

• Schedule 8 (responses to Digital agenda Review: educational institutions)

• Schedules 10 and 11 (Copyright Tribunal);

The following schedules are not yet in force:

• Schedule 9 (encoded broadcasts): 28 days after Royal Assent; and

• Schedules 1 to 5 (new criminal provisions and enforcement measures) and Schedule 12 (technological protection measures): 1 January 2007

Further information

• inquiry of the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs into the Copyright Amendment Bill 2006: click here.

• a consolidated version of the Copyright Amendment Act 2006 will be available from here (scroll to Copyright Amendment Act 2006).