Copyright Amendment Bill 2006

Yesterday (30th November) the Senate debated the proposed Copyright Amendment Bill 2006, that the House of Reps put forward.
The Senate's Legal & Constitutional Affairs Committee had a month to go through the bill and the 74 submissions received, including those from ARIA and APRA/AMCOS. See a list of all the submissions HERE. They then produced a report for the Senate to go through.

The Senate reviewed this report and the explanatory memos and subsequently proposed 80 amendments to the Bill. Most of these were trivial wording and subsection changes, but it was interesting to see that they attempted to make it easier for individuals to copy music for domestic use.

Senator Andrew Bartlett tried to implement changes that would protect community broadcasters, but unfortunately this was vetoed by the majority of the Senate.

Previous post on the topic (including a link to the entire Bill) HERE