Tuesday, May 17, 2005
I just re-read the opinion piece by Malik from yesterday's Age...
...and it strikes me as a little strange, to be honest.
Does anyone else think it is a bit strange that Malik should be suggesting, in effect, that we pay a levy for potentially less user rights than they have in the US for free? What Malik appears to be suggesting is that we pay a levy - not just on CD-Rs, or other media, but even on hardware (like computers? like iPods?) - and have the 'right to back up'. In the US, media shifting (not just 'backing up') (transfer to a iPod, for example), is FREE - so the RIAA itself acknowledges.
And Malik says nothing about the other kinds of things that adopting a fair use system might enable - like parody, or transformative use of existing copyright works.
Now, inevitably in an op-ed, complex ideas get simplified. But I'm not sure I like the simplified system that Malik refers to at all.
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