| Summary: | The first part of this article conceptualises open access
practice.The second part considersrelevant open access
practice developments in the Australian legal landscape.
The institutional perspective is considered by examining
specific Australian institutions’ (i.e., the Australian
Research Council, the Australian Law Reform
Commission (ALRC) and the Australian Productivity
Commission) contributions and the potentiality thatstems
from such contributionsforfuture reform of the Copyright
Act. The third part examines the interrelation between
copyright law, licensing and open access practice. In the
fourth part, an international perspective is taken to
understand national practices via statutory policies in
the international sphere, which is then juxtaposed to
Australian contributions.The concluding part talks about
the importance of the final report on “Intellectual
Property ArrangementsInquiry”issued by the Australian
Productivity Commission (2016), which set up the
appropriate background towards a gradual integration
of open access practice in the Copyright Act.
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