Infojustice.org – Australian Commission Recommends Fair Use To Restore Balance In Copyright Law 03/05/2016 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) The views expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and are not associated with Intellectual Property Watch. IP-Watch expressly disclaims and refuses any responsibility or liability for the content, style or form of any posts made to this forum, which remain solely the responsibility of their authors. Infojustice.org reports: “A draft report by the Australian Productivity Commission (APC) concludes that the current copyright law fails to properly balance the interests of copyright holders and users. It warns that ‘Australia’s copyright arrangements are weighed too heavily in favour of copyright owners, to the detriment of the long-term interests of both consumers and intermediate users.’ The APC makes recommends changes to the law to address the imbalance, including “the introduction of a broad, principles-based fair use exception.” This follows the 2013 Australian Law Reform Commission report on Copyright in the Digital Economy, which also recommended that Australia amend its copyright law to include fair use. … The APC also responded to some of the warnings offered by opponents of the move to introduce fair use in Australia. Many were offered in a report for copyright industry associations prepared by PricewaterhouseCooper [PWC] which purported to measure the costs and benefits of a switch to fair use in Australia, and suggested that the policy change could cost the country $1.3 billion a year.” The infojustice.org article includes point-by-point counterarguments to the PWC report. For the full infojustice.org article, see here. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Related "Infojustice.org – Australian Commission Recommends Fair Use To Restore Balance In Copyright Law" by Intellectual Property Watch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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