[dropcaps style=’2′]The Australian capital city of Canberra played host to the 2014 Australian Digital Alliance Event. During this time, a shocking revelation emerged; if Google was founded and operated out of Australia, it would have been shut down years ago due to the lack of Fair Use policy.[/dropcaps]
The industry environment in Australia is quickly thinning; the car industry is gone within 3 years of this date, manufacturing is on it’s final length, even mining is getting desperate with complaints about business being effected by the Carbon “Tax”.
With those and other fields leaving the country, it is important that we a dominant power as a knowledge and information economy. Unfortunately, it would take a government not focused on boats and stopping gay people from marriage in order to pass.
So here’s a thought about fair use: Google says if it had been invented in Australia, it would have been shut down because our copyright laws are so antiquated.
Google Australia’s public policy manager Damian Kassabgi said that without a fair use clause in Australian law regarding copyright they would have trouble existing as a company had they been started here.
While they believe that fair use allows them to exist in the United States, detractors of Google find it laughable due to their alleged treatment of content creators, many who complain about their pieces being constantly duplicated on YouTube (owned by Google).