The prize is awarded to the author of an unpublished essay displaying original thinking on a topic of the author’s choice regarding copyright and the protection of the interests of authors. The winning entry is likely to exhibit original ideas on issues of practical importance in copyright or on copyright theory. The competition is open to any interested persons, including authors, lawyers and students. The prize of 3,500 dollars will be awarded at the 2009 Copyright Law and Practice Symposium in Sydney on 15 October 2009. Entries should be a minimum of 5,000 and a maximum of 10,000 words. Submissions are due by 30 September 2009.
Archive for April, 2009
Sydney collaborates with ABC on Gallipoli
Staff from the University of Sydney’s Archaeological Computing Laboratory (ACL) have collaborated with the ABC Digital Innovation Unit to develop an immersive, interactive website about the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. The ABC is launching the Gallipoli: The First Day site to coincide with Anzac Day. The website explores the key events and characters of this part of Australia’s history through spatially based sound, text and video overlayed onto a 3D digital terrain model of Gallipoli. The University of Sydney News, 22 April 2009
Australia 2020 Summit – Government Response
The Prime Minister released the Government response to the Australia 2020 Summit on 22 April 2009. Australian Government, April 2009
Internet’s web to get wider and wider
While the internet has dramatically changed lives around the world, its full impact will only be realised when far more people and information go online, its founders said on Wednesday. ‘The web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past,’ said Tim Berners-Lee, one of the inventors of the World Wide Web, at a seminar on its future. The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 April 2009