Intellectual Property and Copyright in Australia

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Table of Contents
PART A – Intellectual Property and Copyright:........................................................................2
Part B – Privacy.........................................................................................................................5
Over View of the Privacy policy of Atlassian:......................................................................5
Privacy Concern:....................................................................................................................5
Information Management:......................................................................................................5
Information Handling Procedure:..........................................................................................6
Table:......................................................................................................................................6
Recommendation:..............................................................................................................7
Distribution of policies and work monitoring:.......................................................................7
Part C – Ethics:...........................................................................................................................8
Review of organizational code with the ACS code:..............................................................8
Creating Code of Ethics:........................................................................................................9
Implementing new Code of Ethics:......................................................................................10
Review and Grievance process:...........................................................................................10
Reference:................................................................................................................................12

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PART A – Intellectual Property and Copyright:
Followed by the investigation of Australian IP copyrights it has been observed that these
legislations are mainly focused on the ICT industries. Mentioned copyrights are related to the
aspects of Patent, Trade mark, Design as well as Australian Plant Breeder’s system (Drahos
2016). The purpose of the introduced act is mentioned below:
 In order to provide the administering power to the offices of patent, trade mark and
plant breeder’s rights.
 An improved establishment for variety of patent, design and trade mark.
 It has set to charge a certain fee for the services.
 In order to improve the innovation and making the process more enhanced is one of
the major provisions of it.
 Effective decisions making approach.
 In order to provide the effective supervision procedure to the mentioned sectors.
 It offers to follow the legal rules for all the sectors.
The above aspects are the one of the major objectives of Australian copyrights for intellectual
Property. The introduced legislations as well as amendments related to the Intellectual
properties are mentioned below:
 Patent Protection – this legislation of offers a legal power to restrict any third
party’s business related to selling inventions and manufacturing from Australia
(Denicolò and Zanchettin 2018). Thus, it provides licence to the verified
manufacturer based on the validation and essentiality of the licence application.
 Trade Mark – this legislation provides a high protection to the verified brand owner
from the unauthorized user. An organization or brand can use the trademark as their

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marketing tool. Trade Mark provides legal identity to the brand and protect
nationally.
 Design Protection – This legislation is for the purpose of registering the design or
structure of any organization (Danezis et al. 2015). The design office will verify
whether the design is following the legislation framework of the country or not.
 Copyright Protection – This legislation of Australia is structured in order provide
protection to the manufacturer business and innovations (Reimers 2016). This
mainly observes the usage of copyright materials.
In order to describe the application of IP legislation of Australia, Atlassian has been chosen
as an ideal organization. Since, Atlassian is a software company which develops software for
project manager as well as software developers. Followed by the analysis of the Australian
Copyrights Information sheet G010v19 several points has been raised which can be applied
to the business structure of Atlassian in order to improve their service (Byrne 2018).
The current copyright acts of Atlassian organization does not allows any type of infringing
activities regarding copyright on cloud product of Atlassian. This organization have the
policy of removing third party data from their services if it is determined that that those are
braking the copyright rules of the organization. They also have a policy of terminating the
accounts of parties who has done continuous infringement with the copyright contents.
Currently this organization is having a good policy regarding the copyright infringement but
this are not meeting the industrial standards. Here in this case some recommendations can be
given to the organization so that they can align their policies with the legislation and industry
standards (Darzentas and Petri 2018). There are some policies which need to be followed by
this organization which are employee position description. It indicates all the position of the
employees should be clearly defined. Personal policies should be stated clearly. No retaliation
policy need to be added in the existing policy. Safety of the employees within the workplace