Mastodawn

Some good news!!!!

The #Copyright Amendment Bill 2026 passed both houses yesterday.

This might sound like an incredibly niche and boring thing but this will have huge positive ramifications for Australians' access to collections in libraries and archives, and make online education much safer from copyright trolls.

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r7402

Most notably: Once this is signed into law it will be legal to copy/publish orphan works after a diligent search for a copyright owner. This will impact thousands of works currently sitting in copyright limbo.

Thanks @Trishh for the heads up.

Helpful information Text of bill First reading: Text of the bill as introduced into the Parliament Third reading: Prepared if the bill is amended by the house in which it was introduced. This version of the bill is then considered by the second house. As passed by