PDC: Copyright Policy insert 2013
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Draft Policy
This is a draft policy which may still be under development and is not approved or endorsed by the party.
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Insert into the Copyright policy the following:
Policy text
Promote fair pricing and discourage artificial market segmentation
- Implement the recommendations of the IT Pricing Inquiry[1] in particular:
- Lifting the parallel importation restrictions still found in the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).
- Allowing consumers to circumvent technological protection measures that control geographic market segmentation (see "Curtail attempts to restrict consumer rights" above).
- Educating Australian consumers and businesses as to how to circumvent geoblocking mechanisms, and what rights might be affected as a result.
- Creating a right of resale in relation to digitally distributed content.
- Restricting vendors' abilities to lock digital content into particular ecosystems.
- Introducing a ban on geoblocking to address persistent market failures.
- Amending the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) so that contracts or terms of service attempting to enforce geoblocking are considered void.
References
- ↑ House of Representatives Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Communications, Parliament of Australia, At what cost? IT pricing and the Australia tax (2013) xii–xiii.