Unlike the United Kingdom, Australia’s copyright laws are more similar to
those of the United States, such as the DMCA, which gives owners of digital
content some additional rights.303 Although the DMCA allows the news
industry to prevent and remedy losses from unauthorized distribution of its
content, the DMCA’s uses are limited in the context of news aggregators.304
For example, in the AP’s settled case against AHN, the court concluded that
AHN violated the DMCA’s copyright management information provision
when AHN removed the original references to the AP as the owner and author
of the articles that it copies, which most news aggregators do not do.