Anyway, on to copyright reform and what questions are being asked: The framework for the current Australian review set up by the Australian Law Reform Committee suggested a number of framing principles for the inquiry: acknowledging and respecting authorship and creation; maintaining incentives for creation of works and other subject matter; promoting fair access to and wide dissemination of content; providing rules that are flexible and adaptive to new technologies; and providing rules that are consistent with Australia’s international obligations. Any recommendations the ALRC finally makes will be weighed against these principles.
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Chris Dodd, MPAA |
In the US of A, Chris Dodd, Chair of the Motion Picture Association of
America and a former US Senator, has
taken to the pages of the Huffington Post to give his thoughts about the “reviews of copyright laws that are currently underway around the world” saying
that any discussion on copyright reform “must focus on certain fundamental
tenets that create the foundation of sound copyright policy and that are absolutely
vital to any meaningful and informed discussion of this issue", not least that “copyright
must empower creativity, innovation, and the dissemination of knowledge by
ensuring that creators have a fair chance to be compensated for their creative
efforts” but also that “copyright must benefit consumers by promoting free
markets and competition. By recognizing well-defined and enforceable property
rights, it incentivizes creators to take risks” and “copyright must support an
Internet that works for everyone. Copyright must promote creativity, while also
promoting new technologies and business models, like those that have emerged
with the growth of the Internet.” To this Dodds adds that copyright must
provide creators with modern protections, and finally that copyright must
provide for incentives and accountability and include provisions that ensure
the effective protections of creators' rights.

And the Pirate Party in the UK say this on copyright reform:

Let's end with a song shall we? So its Squeeze again (well sort of, apologies to Glenn and Chris!) so sing along everyone!
My brief is doing parody
'Cos he's got the word to go
My mashed up track is brilliant
I just hope the court thinks so
I nicked a bit of music
what's the flamin' fuss?
It's not like Arnold's pirates
Or Birss' big red bus
It's funny how the exceptions'
Sometimes look so bleeding tame
And meanwhile in the Strand
There's a couple of likely lads
Who plead like how's your father
And they're very cool for cats
for CopyKats
Little known fact: Glenn Tilbrook produced my band's first proper demo tapes in Whitstable in 1978 along with Stewart Copeland. Not a lot of people know that.
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