The Library Bulletin

• The Turnbull Government has this week introduced the Copyright Amendment (Service Providers) Bill 2017 to extend the safe harbour provisions in the Copyright Act to the disability, education, library, archive and cultural sectors. This represents the first step taken to significantly reform safe harbour legislation after more than 10 years of debate and multiple reviews. The measures in the Bill will ensure these sectors are protected from legal liability where they can demonstrate that they have taken reasonable steps to deal with copyright infringement by users of their online platforms. Extending the safe harbour scheme in this way will provide greater certainty to institutions in these sectors and enhance their ability to provide more innovative and creative services for all Australians. The changes will also give copyright owners tools to work with these sectors to prevent copyright infringement by their users.

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