Culture clash: The Australian Law Reform Commission's discussion of retransmission and the world of broadcast

摘要

The interaction between copyright law and media policy is an area of considerable difficulty. This article analyses and contextualises the conclusions of the Australian Law Reform Commission regarding the retransmission scheme and assorted broadcast exceptions. It queries the trend towards treating broadcast as "just another copyright subject matter", illustrates the difficulty in understanding copyright policy in isolation from media policy considerations, and raises questions about what is next for the boundary land between copyright and media policy. It argues we should pay more attention to cultural policies in thinking about copyright reform in this space and generally.