In a statement released last week (6 August), The Arts Law Centre of Australia claims that, ‘Artist’s rights are compromised’ in the Productivity Commission’s interim findings in its inquiry, Harnessing data and digital technology. It got us curious, here at ArtsHub. Could artists and creatives really be blind-sided by the Commission’s policy recommendations to government?
Arts Law was not shy in being critical of the PC’s approach in which copyright is diluted, to the detriment of the arts. The organisation has expressed, ‘dismay at the Productivity Commission’s interim report about the possibility of introducing a text and data mining exception to Australia’s copyright regime’.
