125_org_ Spinifex Press
Full name: Susan Hawthorne

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Copyright law affects the ability of creators to earn a living, including through access to new revenue streams and new digital goods and service. Given that writers are among the most underpaid in the arts sector and across thw workforce, it's critical that new revenue streams open up. Independent publishers are also reliant on such streams in order to keep publishing long term literary and socially relevant titles.
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Exceptions should be limited and based on difficulty of access. I would support exceptions for people with disabilities and Indigenous communities. It is a matter of social justice to foster access to reading. I'd be happy to consider others, but these two immediately spring to mind.
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Same applies as in question 4.
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Writers and artists shouldn't have to bear the burden of other people's free access. We don't ask restauranteurs to provide free food.
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Some consideration should be made for private use. But it does raise the question of how this is tracked. It might be better to make small payments across the board so that material that is widely used ebven in domestic settings still earns income streams for creators and producers.
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Assuming that those making the material received payment for creation, then private use is okay BUT I wonder how this can be tracked? I would reiterate my answer to q 9: a small payment for every use may enable access while returning income to creators and producers.
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This seems reasonable providing the back-up can be traced to the same computer user or the same workplace.
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Social networking should be considered promotional use.
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Use that does not conflict with normal exploitation of the copyright material and does not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the owner of the copyright? eg non-commercial, news, promotion, educational use.
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Problematic.
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None of these moral rights should be removed.
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Very significant as there are important issues of who should be granted access to these materials. These need to be made in concert with the cultural owners. It may take time but it is essential that the knowledgeable people in the community should have final say in this. Women need to be in charge of women's business.
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It is critical that this law is not weakened in any way.
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Widening free-use exception would result in drying up of income streams for writers. With the introduction of eBooks, writers are already seeing price drops on their titles for digital copies. Most writers need to see 2 or more copies to earn the same income as a print title with 10% royalties on RRP. Again, why should creators and producers bear this cost?
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They should not be weakened. They should incorporate digital copies.
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Digital copies should be countable.
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The fair dealing exceptions for research should not apply in a way that affects licences such as those offered by Copyright Agency. These income streams are important for underpaid writers and also for independent publishers.
Similar issues apply to libraries where the licences of Copyright Agency should not be reduced. Many of the research institutions and their attached libraries are extremely well funded and therefore should be contributing to the incomes of those who make those research institutions possible through their writing.
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Fair dealing for quotation is reasonable. A word limit of say, 250 words for prose and 2-3 lines for poetry seems reasonable.
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Fairness seems a good basis of exceptions. Fairness in the sense of social justice and fair use.
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Contracting out sounds like a dangerous precedent.
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