'The debate around reforms to copyright does not fit neatly into traditional political paradigms..' (Introduction)
'One way to read poetry in Australia is to see it as being in a constant state of conflict. For the most part, this is a cold war where poets argue with poets in very poetic ways – the outcry about Geoff Page’s Southerly blog probably counts as the outer limit of this activity, which manifests more often in email exchanges, reviews that are compliment sandwiches or gossipy asides. Sometimes this breaks out into the open, as we saw when John Kinsella took out a restraining order against Robert Adamson and Anthony Lawrence and which the Sydney Morning Herald covered in 2006.' (Introduction)
'Lizzie O’Shea wrote in her recent Overland article How to think left on copyright: ‘A world where every person can read, listen and watch whatever they want at any time is now technologically possible.’ That might be true, but what O’Shea fails to acknowledge is that creating the things that we really want to watch, read or listen to, takes time, effort and money. So, while the current copyright regime certainly does not ‘compensate the majority of authors meaningfully’, it does give authors, and publications such as Overland,* who create original work from scratch, the right to seek payment and attribution for the copying of their work.' (Introduction)
