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Leading key speakers and opening the event I was proud to represent the key recipient of this first event designed by local business woman Karen from Skin Correctives – to raise much needed funds and drive awareness of Dress for Success NSW/ACT. This event was a long ladies lunch that raised just shy of $11k on the day, and also resulted in a $25k donated media campaign with Wave Fm.
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Implications of the recommendations in the ALRC’s Discussion Paper regarding “Copyright and the Digital Economy” may have on the following media sectors:
- Free to air television
- Music
- Internet and online
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PANEL: INCENTIVES FOR INNOVATION: CULTIVATING THE RIGHT ENVIRONMENT FOR CREATORS AND DIGITAL PLATFORMS Speakers: Brian Carver, Dean Ormston, Paul Wiegard, Jose Antonio Sanmartin Chair: Carolyn Hough
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‘Shrink-wrapped’ licences: can they defeat the copyright laws? The Canberra Times, 18 November 2002, by Carolyn Hough and Michael Cooley A recent decision by a U S District Court could erode consumer rights under copyright law. The case in point concerned a ‘shrink-wrap’ licence which prohibited the reverse engineering of a piece of software. Reverse engineering is deemed a ‘fair use’ under U S copyright law.
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Representatives for Netflix agreed that ranking free-to-air content first had the potential to disrupt viewing habits.
Netflix’s policy advisor Carolyn Hough said viewers should remain in control rather than have the order of content regulated.
“We really need to make sure that we’re preserving that flexibility and the capacity for devices to dynamically adapt,” she said.
“We really struggle with the proposition that if someone searches ‘Australian movie’ only Australian movies that are on free-to-air are surfaced in those search results.
“Our concern with free-first is that it has the potential to get in the way of that consumer experience.”
Ms Hough argued if someone had started watching a program that was available on both free and paid services on the paid platform, the requirements may make it more complicated to continue to do so.
“We want to defend the rights of Australians to be in charge of their viewing choices,” she said.
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Netflix policy advisor Carolyn Hough agreed, adding it was ‘quite unfair’ to creators involved in making Australian movies with the streamer, if search results only showed content from free-to-air TV.
‘We really need to make sure that we’re preserving that flexibility,’ she said.
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The Federal Government plans to sell its remaining stake in Telstra on the stockmarket. Surely, analysts would have to factor into the calculations of the share value of Telstra the greater costs associated with copyright management under the regime, and the higher risks of suits for copyright infringement.
In the debate over the AUSFTA, the behemoths of the telecommunications industry belatedly lobbied against further amendments in the Copyright Amendment Act 2004 (Cth). David McCulloch of Optus, along with Carolyn Hough of Telstra, commented:
We believe the new provisions go further than the provisions required by the FTA, or side letters to the FTA. In fact, the two provisions go even further than the provisions required by U.S. copyright law, leaving Australian ISPs in a worse position than our colleagues in the U.S. [156] |
Notwithstanding such concerns, the Federal Government passed the Copyright Amendment Act 2004 (Cth). They sought to allay the fears of Telstra and Optus by emphasising that regulations could resolve any potential problems.
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