Wow, I think Australias premier copyright body, Copyright Agency Limited has finally gone one step too far:
“SCHOOLS have warned they will have to turn off the internet if a move by the nation’s copyright collection society forces them to pay a fee every time a teacher instructs students to browse a website.”
I’ve said it before, and I continue to say, we are putting a price tag on our education, and our ability to evolve. Hopefully this will push people yet another step to realising that protecting IP can go too far, and we end up protecting business rights at the expense of individual and society rights.
I highly recommend anyone who cares about the quality of education in Australian schools to write to the Hon Julie Bishop, the Minister for Education, Science and Training. Perhaps we can get this issue on the political agenda. Perhaps we can get people thinking about this bigger issue of only making information available under the rules corporates set.