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  • From: David <havefunbegood AT gmail.com>
  • To: cc-au AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [cc-au] Copyright - Review of Extension of Legal Deposit (submissions by 11/01/08)
  • Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:44:40 +0800

This submission date has long gone, I was wondering if anyone here made a submission to this review?
http://www.ag.gov.au/www/agd/agd.nsf/Page/Copyright_IssuesandReviews_ReviewoftheExtensionofLegalDeposit

While looking into the ACC's board and constituency, I found this negative submission by the Copyright Australia Limited (CAL) revenue agency.
http://www.copyright.com.au/legal_deposit.htm

The CAL submission struck a chord with anti-public domain examples cited by Lawrence Lessig in his Free Culture book, as he reviews USA copyright history and ultimate death of public domain.

The pertinent example was the change in legal deposit for copyright (MPAA and Warner-Brothers involved iirc) where the material no longer had to be submitted to national library.  Only required that a copy be held by the copyright owner, not a centralised repository, and no redundancy.  Following from that the perpetual extensions of copyright terms to persons and corporations, deceased estates etc. means the last century of popular culture is not guaranteed to ever see the public domain. 

If the USA scenario sounds unlikely... a local example I can cite is a fire at a TV studio destroyed part of an archive of sporting matches which originally were under exclusive broadcast rights, but under a 14 to 28year copyright period with parallel legal submission to a national archive may not have been lost.

David.


  • [cc-au] Copyright - Review of Extension of Legal Deposit (submissions by 11/01/08), David, 03/11/2008

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