Hi Liam, thanks for the detailed report. I have a question relating to the counter arguments you cite. Might this lobby find better examples in the education and research space? Currently, Australian schools and universities pay royalties for works copied through Copyright Agency Limited (CAL), based on periodic audits where CAL comes to a campus library, for example, and observes photocopying and other copy methods to use as a data sample to configure a general payment rate for that school or university for the next period (around 5 years).. how it is precisely divided up into royalties to those it is owed I don't know, dubious I'd expect. Needless to say, much of what is copied in the education sector is educational content, like research, textbook chapters etc. I know a few academics who claim royalty checks through CAL, for their works that have been copied in a library somewhere. Might Fair Use impact on this? So, not so much "artists" but producers of more educational-in-nature content might lose their royalties from CAL if Fair Use was introduced?
Regards, Leigh On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Liam Wyatt <liamwy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Aussiepedians again, also crossposting to the Public Policy group, > > TL;DR summary: Australia Fair Use campaign on Wikipedia will stop on > Monday; Australians encouraged to send a letter to their MP (and bring our > total over 10,000) here: https://www.faircopyright.org. > au/take-action/#emailform > > As we reach the end of the #FairCopyrightOz campaign (banners on en.wp in > Australia raising awareness of the Productivity Commission's recommendation > to introduce Fair Use to Australia) I wanted to give an update and request: > > - Thanks to the diligent A/B-testing work of Seddon at the WMF, the total > clickthrough rate of the banners has remained steady, even while the actual > visibility of them has been decreased. They started at standard banner-size > visible at 50% on day 1, then steadily decreasing to 12% with smaller > banner-size, and also removing the 1 week cookie-timeout - so people would > only see 5 banners and then it would stop. So, we've managed (in my > opinion) to be simultaneously very visible but also non-disruptive). > > - Choice Australia (a very respected consumer rights organisation - > equivalent of the USA's 'Consumer Reports'), which ran an equivalent > campaign several years ago (the last time Fair Use was recommended by a > gov't inquiry) has now sent an email to their mailing list cross-promoting > ours. They are thereby endorsing our campaign - which gives a great boost > of credibility too. (Linux Australia has also cross-promoted to their > members, as has the NSW education sector). > > - We are just about to reach 8,000 people who have sent an email directly > to their local member of the federal parliament (and also their 12 state > senators). This equals over 100,000 emails sent to elected representatives > on the issue of promoting Fair Use as something that the general public > cares about. On an electorate-by-electorate breakdown it is the inner-city > of the State Capitals which are the most engaged by the issue. We know > we've got their attention because several politicians are sending reply > emails to their constituents that are written the same as each other - > meaning that they've taken the time to draft a response from their party's > position and distribute the same text it among their MPs (which also means > they're talking about us). > > - The final day of the banners on WP will be Monday. We are hoping to > break the 10,000 mark of people emailing their MPs. *If you've not > already: Go here, put in your postcode, adjust the template email if you > wish, and send! https://www.faircopyright.org.au/take-action/#emailform > <https://www.faircopyright.org.au/take-action/#emailform> * > > - There have been several other media mentions and blogposts from allied > groups (such as EFF, Creative Commons) which we've been compiling here: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:FairCopyrightOz#Campaign_Report > > - ADA / EFA have been able to book many meetings with the relevant members > of parliament/senators responsible for this issue over the next week. This > is where the public advocacy turns more quiet, as we talk with MPs and > await the Government's overdue official reply to the Productivity > Commission report. Then, depending on what they say, the other parties will > make their positions known... Unsurprisingly, the Copyright industry is > also lobbying but they seem to have been taken by surprise by our campaign, > since all they've managed to say in reply is that we're stooges of "big > tech/Google" and that Wikipedia is already free-licensed (which are pretty > obvious misdirection/straw man arguments) and to repeat the claim that Fair > Use will mean Aussie artists will stop getting royalties - despite not > demonstrating a single example of a royalty currently being paid for which > would stop; nor acknowledging that 'not harming the commercial rights of > the artist' is a key test for what counts as 'fair'. > > Yours in Copyrighteousness, > -Liam / Wittylama > > p.s. Also this week in Australian copyright law, the federal parliament > approved a longstanding bill which enshrines disability access in > accordance with our obligation under the *Marrakesh Treaty for the Blind > and Vision Impaired*. There's also some great stuff in there for GLAMs. > You can read about this on the EFA's press statement: > https://www.efa.org.au/2017/06/15/copyright-amendment-bill/ or the ADA's: > http://digital.org.au/media/australia-leads-disability- > access-thanks-copyright-changes > So that's pretty damn cool too! > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > -- -- Leigh Blackall <http://about.me/leighblackall> +61(0)404561009
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