Access: Copyright in the time of COVID – Australian Digital Alliance Copyright Forum 2021

The Australian Digital Alliance Copyright Forum 2021 will take place Tuesday 27 April–Friday 7 May 2021 and will be delivered entirely online.

About the Forum 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted almost every aspect of our lives, and access to content has been no exception. The sudden closure of physical facilities forced institutions and creators to quickly pivot to making content available online. But inflexible copyright laws limited the ways in which institutions like schools, universities, libraries and museums could provide online services to their users.

The copyright access reforms announced by the Government in August 2020 were designed to address some of these issues. This year, the ADA forum will focus on the idea of ACCESS. How do institutions provide online access to users, and what are the hurdles they face in doing that? We will also be looking to the future of copyright reform, asking ‘what’s next?’

Registering for the Forum

You can register for single sessions or register for all sessions. This year we have also introduced an institutional ticketing option. This option permits an unlimited number of employees of that organisation to attend any session.

You can register for all sessions using the 'Get tickets' button above. Click the links below to register for specific sessions:

• Getting exceptions right: a view from the UK
• Regional update: Singapore Copyright Bill
• Digitisation in action: getting collections online
• Copyright and contract 20 years on
• Open access: COVID-19 as a catalyst for OA
• Copyright reform: what’s next?

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