In the run-up to Christmas, the Government released the Productivity Commission’s final report. The industry has come back from holidays fighting against a range of changes likely to go through in 2017.
The Commission has stepped back from the proposal to reduce copyright to between 15 and 25 years after publication, rather than 70 years after the death of the author. But there was never any chance of that ambit claim getting up and the Government quashed the suggestion within weeks of the draft report in April last year.
