{"id":3221,"date":"2012-08-21T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/aug\/21\/does-copyright-law-spell-trouble-cloud\/"},"modified":"2012-08-21T10:00:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T10:00:35","slug":"does-copyright-law-spell-trouble-for-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/does-copyright-law-spell-trouble-for-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Does copyright law spell trouble for the cloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report from the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has questioned whether current copyright legislation in the country is stunting the growth of cloud computing.<\/p>\n<p>The ALRC particularly mused whether any modifications to the current law should contain exemptions for cloud services or not.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Weatherall, legal academic, was cited in the report stating a belief that technology-specific exemptions could impede cloud services further.<\/p>\n<p>The report, entitled &ldquo;Copyright and the Digital Economy&rdquo;, noted a case in Australia involving the Optus TV Now service, which &ndash; if the appeal does not go Optus&rsquo; way &ndash; will have to be suspended following appeals from the AFL (Australian Football League), the NRL (National Rugby League) and Australian mobile device provider Telstra.<\/p>\n<p>A Federal Court decision ruled that Optus&rsquo; online television service was not protected by an exemption in the Copyright Act, leaving the mobile comms providers seemingly open to legal action from all sides &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report from the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has questioned whether current copyright legislation in the country is stunting the growth of cloud computing.<br \/>\nThe ALRC particularly mused whether any modifications to the current law sho&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}