Australia

How does copyright law take into account the interests of third parties, especially the general public's interest in the greatest possible dissemination of knowledge and culture? Twelve basic questions give copyright law experts from more than forty countries the opportunity to provide answers related to their national law on the following matters: categories of works and subject matters, eligibility conditions, duration, "users' rights", the three-step test, misuse, differentiation between categories of right holders, TPM and relations of copyright law to other legal areas such as fundamental rights, competition law, consumer protection law, media law etc.