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75 Christmas Films Worth Watching

  • Written by: Lauren Rosewarne, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
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January this year, my best friend was pottering around my apartment, readying for work. “So what’s on for today?” he asked me. I rolled my eyes. “What is it that you think I do all day?” I asked. He gestured to my computer. “Watch Christmas films.”

Fair call. This year I’ve watched close to 700.

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Productivity Commission re-ignites copyright wars by recommending 'fair use'

  • Written by: Nicolas Suzor, Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
imageThey're still often more expensive overseas than in Australia.HelMet-kirjasto/Flickr, CC BY

The Australian Government has just released the Productivity Commission’s report into Australia’s Intellectual Property Arrangements.

It’s a move that appears to have been designed to avoid some of the controversy of the copyright wars by...

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Should writers be paid for their e-books lent by libraries?

  • Written by: Rita Matulionyte, Lecturer in Law, University of Newcastle
imageE-books are likely to reach 20% of library holdings by 2020, but writers aren't receiving renumeration from these sources. Is this changing any time soon?Picjumbo

When libraries lend books to the public, authors and publishers receive remuneration from the Government under the Lending Rights schemes, but this is not the case when libraries lend...

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Disruption ahead: personal mobility is breaking down old transport divides

  • Written by: S. Travis Waller, Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation, UNSW Australia

Strong divisions between various transport modes – roads, rail, buses, ferries and so on – have dominated their planning and management for decades, in Australia and overseas. Budgets are often devised and allocated with these transport modes in mind. Whole organisational structures have been created to manage each mode’s...

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