The Attourney General is still mulling over the possibility of a “fair use” exception to copyrights in Australia, something the US takes for granted, and makes creepy laws like the DMCA less scary for them. Recently there was a call for submissions on an issue paper. Below is my contribution to the murky pool of IP debate.<\/p>\n
Submission to Fair Use and Other Copyright Exceptions Ms Helen Daniels<\/p>\n Assistant Secretary<\/p>\n Copyright Law Branch<\/p>\n Attorney-General\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Department<\/p>\n Robert Garran Offices<\/p>\n National Circuit<\/p>\n BARTON <\/span>ACT <\/span>2600 Dear Ms Daniels,<\/p>\n Please find my submission regarding fair use and copyright exceptions listed below.<\/p>\n Firstly, I note that the issues paper states copyright promotes content creation \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It does this by providing exclusive economic rights to copyright owners to control certain uses of their works.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I would remark that it is essential that these rights be applied only for a limited time, allowing the entire community to benefit freely from the works when they enter the public domain.<\/p>\n Secondly, I urge the Attorney-General to reform copyright law in Thirdly, I would urge the addition of a broad fair use exemption to existing laws that is technology neutral and that eliminates anomalies in current laws operation (such as format shifting, time shifting and non-commercial sharing amongst friends).<\/p>\n Fourthly, I would oppose the introduction of any tariff on blank media, as these media can be used for many purposes other than copyright infringement<\/p>\n Fifthly, should either a fair use exemption or a statutory licence be adopted, I would urge that a complementary regulation be adopted to prevent rights holders limiting fair use or statutory licensed copying by technological means.<\/p>\n I thank the Attorney-General for this opportunity to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Attourney General is still mulling over the possibility of a “fair use” exception to copyrights in Australia, something the US takes for granted, and makes creepy laws like the DMCA less scary for them. Recently there was a call for submissions on an issue paper. Below is my contribution to the murky pool ofRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skeggs.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skeggs.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skeggs.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skeggs.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skeggs.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skeggs.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skeggs.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skeggs.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skeggs.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}