Report

Researchers from the Unlocking IP project are working towards producing a report on the state of public rights in Australian copyright (the 'public domain' in the broad sense), to be completed in early 2009.

The submission below, to the Innovations Review, is the first instalment in this work and is in the form of an Issues Paper. It presents over 100 questions that would be valuable for a law reform review of Australia's public domain to address, and it suggests why these questions are important to Australia's innovative capacity. The Submission does not propose particular reforms.

We intend to publish a further Discussion Paper in late 2008, which will discuss options for reform on all the issues raised by the Submission, followed by a Report in 2009 that will state our views on what reforms are desirable.

Unlocking IP to stimulate Australian innovation: An Issues Paper A submission to the Review of the National Innovation System, 30 April 2008