The Australian Copyright Council, Copyright Society of Australia and Copyright Agency Limited will jointly host a one-day conference on current copyright issues in Sydney on 8 November 2006. The conference will be held at The Mint, 10 Macquarie Street, Sydney.

8:30	Registration
9:00	Welcome	Michael Fraser, Chief Executive, Copyright Agency Limited
9:10	Opening address	The Hon Philip Ruddock, Attorney-General
9:30	New copyright exceptions & treaty obligations	Professor Sam Ricketson, University of Melbourne; barrister
10:00	Morning tea
10:30	Legal, market and technology challenges to copyright: responses from WIPO	Richard Owens, Director, Copyright E-Commerce Technology and Management Division, World Intellectual Property Organization Chair: Libby Baulch, Australian Copyright Council
11:15	The future of collective management	Brett Cottle, Chairman, International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers Peter Shepherd, President, International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations Chair: Libby Baulch, Australian Copyright Council
12:15	Lunch
1:45	Technological solutions: broadcasting & publishing	Alicia Wise, Chair, Technical Committee, International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations; Chief Executive, Publishers Licensing Society Rob Nicholls, Consultant, Gilbert + Tobin Solicitors Chair: Michael Williams, Gilbert + Tobin Solicitors
2:40	Issues for the music industry: P2P and more	Sabiene Heindl, General Manager, Music Industry Piracy Investigations Chair: Michael Williams, Gilbert + Tobin Solicitors
3:10	Afternoon tea
3:30	'It's more than just flicking a switch': Google and other issues for the publishing industry	Elizabeth Weiss, Academic Publisher, Allen & Unwin Carlo Scollo Lavizzari, Legal Counsel, International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers Chair: Karen Gettens, Blake Dawson Waldron
4:25	New business models for copyright content	Caroline Morgan, Copyright Agency Limited
4:50	Closing remarks	Michael Fraser , Copyright Agency Limited
5:00	Conference close
7:00	Conference dinner	Sugaroom in Pyrmont. Dinner speaker:  the Hon Peter Garrett, MP, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Reconciliation and the Arts.

Download the conference program as a pdf.

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