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Published: 2017-09-13
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ityF4X2Gj9I
%HESITATION so what if I told you yeah American movie reference but if I told you that copyright was not only something that was good for Australian creators possibly also bad for them and needy even dad rescuing culture okay let me explain why to that guy artist you can tell who's wearing the red beret I mean he's really happy is because he has copyright now allows him
or whoever actually bought his copy right to exercise for the next hundred fifty years or so which is great for him I feel happy okay so what's the issue why couldn't quite could be bad for him because the next time he makes work he will be in a copyright cage this second he wants to refer to anything in his culture because basically everything in his culture
is copyrighted for basically the next hundred fifty years and he's gonna have to get a license for that and that license costs money in request time is to track down the owner is to negotiate with them and so on and sometimes pet owner says the same thing he can say to other people want you to stop which is not like what you're saying I don't think
I will it either so look what if the known consequences of any copyright machine is that it not only gives authors creators the opportunity to control their work but it leaves them in the position of being private sensors of the future and creating a new problem which is that of imagination for gone and the reason why that imagination is going to be for gone is this
stuff the money and the time if you spend enough time being a professional you will learn that you should not do something so eventually you become a self censor because you don't wait for people to privately sense to you you already know the do you everybody knows this about copyright that's why every regime in the world has some kind of escape hatch some people call it
fair use that's ours in the U. S. some people have fair dealing you have a person a fair dealing some people also have right of quotation in the U. S. with fair use which is up our our our feature of copyright law that if dearly beloved by creators what happens because of it not only journalism not only scholarship but for instance artistry publishing books where nobody
actually knows the copyright for a lot of the material making movies about subjects that the subject of the movie don't would would just as soon be happy if you didn't make a movie about that thinking arctic actually critiques the popular culture of your country insofar as it it diminishes your identity and the reason why creators like this L. L. act access to culture so much is
not only because it lets them do their work but also because it doesn't cost them money because all exceptions whatever you call them don't intrude upon the market for the work itself so what is the Australian issue here Australia has fewer that the left and funny are it has fewer copyright exceptions than almost anywhere else in the world except New Zealand there's always New Zealand I
and the company I copyright in this country is extreme routinely are rigid our people have known that for about twenty years and have been trying to address for twenty years in this country with seven national enquiries Howard come to terms with making Australian copyright more flexible and in those twenty years there's been many food fights about this issue but one question has not been asked which
is what are the actual costs the creators encounter when they mixed up so here's what the work that we're doing at the Queensland university of technology we're learning and we're still in the process but I think these trends are gonna whole we've done we're doing a survey and we've done interviews what we're learning is the creators experienced delay and expense the create workarounds that are sub
par decrease day they were themselves recognize make their work less than it could be they are forced to be able to are released only in a limited release and sometimes they see their work go on to destroy because of these licenses not lasting long enough the worst part is that they avoid or abandon work and this is where the imagination work on it twice as many
people say when we ask them in this survey twice as many people are currently saying yes I avoid or abandon work because of copyright issues in in any survey we've ever done with any creator can you states this is some of the material that they our fail to actually I would be able to get enough licenses for to make work enough weight and abandon it those
are subjects that will not be dealt with in Australia because copyright problems what would you like to do more of this is some of the things they dream about how did they referred to the things they want to dream about used phrases that I pulled out of the current survey that I that I thought were very evocative because they say I don't really know what I
wanted to I just know that I want to be able to dream and experiment so we know that there's a real costs to having a very restrictive copyright machine in Australia today imagination for gone okay how should we fix it I have no idea because that's your problem that is that is not straying problem but never until now has Australia been able to have an evidence
based discussion about this problem and you have some great examples from other countries and from your own past to be able to figure out what some of your tools are and we hope that because we're providing some ritually informed evidence that you'll be able to come to some solutions for a balanced copyright and move Australian creators themselves from frustration creative freedom thank you
