Albanese Government to Reform Copyright Act to Govern Online Learning

Published on April 12, 2024

The Albanese Government is amending the Copyright Act so that existing rules governing copyrights for classroom materials will also apply to lessons delivered through online classes. The amendments come after four ministerial roundtables on copyright tackled how digital material can be copied and distributed in remote learning environments, along with other concerns such as orphan works, quotations from copyright material, implications of artificial intelligence for copyright law, and the legal definition of “broadcast.” “COVID-19 ignited a national re-think of how and where people are educated. Many schools have since moved to a more flexible, hybrid education delivery model that integrates online learning into the curriculum and are reliant on technologies that enable teachers to deliver classes over the internet,” said Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, who chaired the ministerial roundtables that ran from Feb. 23 to Dec. 4 last year....

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