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Good news for Trove

After 12 months of advocacy for Trove we were delight to hear that Trove has been given a funding boost.

It was announced in the Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook.

Trove will receive $16.4 million over four years from 2016-17.

This will be provided to the National Library of Australia (NLA) which manages Trove - the search engine focussing on Australian and Australians.

eSafety Christmas gift guide

Are you scratching your head about tech gifts this Christmas?

Check out this guide from the Office of the Children's eSafety Commissioner.

Fair use

Good news - the Productivity Commission wants fair use in copyright.

It made some welcome recommendations in the report on Intellectual Property Arrangements.

But we're still waiting for Government to abolish the perpetual copyright in unpublished works (remember Cooking for Copyright?). It's on the agenda and we hope the bill will be passed next year.

Read the media release from Australian Libraries Copyright Committee (ALCC)

Internet is global but copyright exceptions stop at the border

New evidence and examples from the international library community on why we need an international treaty for cross border access to knowledge.

It's a booklet from Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) which provides evidence of information denied when copyright exceptions stop at the border.

It's based on statements made at sessions of World Intellectual Property Organisation’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR).

Part of the Australian Library and Information Association's (ALIA) statement is below:

'As a legacy of our colonial heritage, many documents relating to Australia, our governance and heritage reside overseas, especially in the UK. To this day even our National Library has been unable to digitise or get access to digitised copies of some microfilm of official documents relating to Australia and the Pacific that are in archives and offices in the UK.'

Help the Wayback Machine

Internet archive, the Wayback Machine, is appealing for funds.

The founder and digital librarian, Brewster Kahle, said this appeal to ensure facts, good, reliable information is archived at a time when fake news is proliferating.

The objective of the fund raising is to create copy of the archive's digital collections in Canada because Mr Kahle said: '...lots of copies keeps things safe.'

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