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Making Copyright Work for the Asian Pacific Juxtaposing Harmonisation with Flexibility MAKING COPYRIGHT WORK FOR THE ASIAN PACIFIC JUXTAPOSING HARMONISATION WITH FLEXIBILITY MAKING COPYRIGHT WORK FOR THE ASIAN PACIFIC JUXTAPOSING HARMONISATION WITH FLEXIBILITY EDITED BY SUSAN CORBETT AND JESSICA C LAI Published by ANU Press The Australian National University Acton ACT 2601, Australia Email: [email protected] Available to download for free at press.anu.edu.au ISBN (print): 9781760462383 ISBN (online): 9781760462390 WorldCat (print): 1057230592 WorldCat (online): 1057230434 DOI: 10.22459/MCWAP.10.2018 This title is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). The full licence terms are available at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Cover design and layout by ANU Press This edition © 2018 ANU Press Contents Abbreviations . vii Introduction . 1 Susan Corbett and Jessica C Lai The Asian Pacific Copyright Code . 7 JAL Sterling Part 1: Norm-making 1 . TPP, RCEP and the Future of Copyright Norm-setting in the Asian Pacific . 19 Peter K Yu 2 . Copyright Harmonisation in the Asian Pacific Region: Weaving the Peoples Together? . 47 Lida Ayoubi 3 . Fair Use and Traditional Cultural Expressions . 75 Natalie P Stoianoff and Evana Wright Part 2: Norm-taking? 4 . Copyright Reform in the 21st Century: Adding Privacy Considerations into the Normative Mix . 97 Doris Estelle Long 5 . Free Trade Agreements with the United States, Rulemaking and TPMs: Why Asian Pacific Nations Should Resist Increased Regulation of TPMs in their Domestic Copyright Laws . 133 Susan Corbett Part 3: Users and Access 6 . Harmony and Counterpoint: Dancing with Fair Use in New Zealand and Australia . 163 Melanie Johnson, Robin Wright and Susan Corbett 7 . Open Government Data Licences in the Greater China Region . 197 Jyh-An Lee Part 4: Non-authors? 8 . Putting Artists and Guardians of Indigenous Works First: Towards a Restricted Scope of Freedom of Panorama in the Asian Pacific Region . 229 Jonathan Barrett 9 . The Development of Performers’ Rights in New Zealand: Lessons for the Asian Pacific Region? . 257 Jessica C Lai Conclusion . 293 Shubha Ghosh Index . 299 Abbreviations ACTA Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ALRC Australian Law Reform Commission APCA Asian Pacific Copyright Association APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum ARIPO African Regional Intellectual Property Organization ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN+3 ASEAN, China, Japan and South Korea ASEAN+6 ASEAN+3, Australia, India and New Zealand AUSFTA Australia – United States Free Trade Agreement CBD Convention on Biological Diversity CER Australia – New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement CLRC Copyright Law Reform Committee CMA Canadian Copyright Modernization Act CPTPP Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership DMCA Digital Millennium Copyright Act EU European Union FTA free trade agreement FTAAP Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific GDP gross domestic product GDPR General Data Protection Regulation HDCA New Zealand Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015 vii MAkING COPyRIGHT WORk FOR THE ASIAN PACIFIC? ICESCR International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights IP intellectual property IPRs intellectual property rights ISP internet service provider JSCOT Joint Standing Committee on Treaties KORUS Korea – United States FTA LIANZA Libraries and Information Association of New Zealand MBIE Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment MED Ministry of Economic Development MPAA Motion Picture Association of America MTA multilateral trade agreement NSW New South Wales NTD notice and takedown OGCIO Office of the Government Chief Information Officer OGD open government data OGP Open Government Partnership OKI Open Knowledge International OSP online service provider P2P peer-to-peer P4 Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (Pacific 4) PIPA Personal Information Protection Act PSI public sector information RCEP Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership RIS Regulatory Impact Statement SEM Single Economic Market TCE traditional cultural expressions TK traditional knowledge TPM technological protection measure TPP Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement TRIPS Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights viii AbbREviations UNCRC United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child UNDRIP United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples UNEP United Nations Environment Programme UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization US United States USTR United States Trade Representative UTS University of Technology Sydney WCT WIPO Copyright Treaty WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO IGC WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (the IGC) WPPT WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty WTO World Trade Organization ix Introduction Susan Corbett and Jessica C Lai1 The copyright laws of most countries of the Asian Pacific region2 rarely constitute the subject of international academic commentary, which tends to focus mainly upon the judicial rulings and laws deriving from the European Union (EU) and the United States (US). This is due to many factors, including that much of the Asian Pacific region does not have the history implicit in western copyright law and the subject is therefore relatively new for the region. Moreover, many Asian Pacific nations simply have not had (and many continue not to have) the financial or intellectual resource capacity to deal with the finer details of copyright law. For example, it is well documented that many nations in the region signed up to international intellectual property obligations in the Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in exchange for other trade benefits, sometimes not fully appreciating the implications of such obligations or perhaps believing they had no real choice in the matter. This is related to the fact that the Asian Pacific region is mainly populated by countries that are overall users and importers of copyright works, whereas the EU and US – the main drivers of stronger intellectual property norms – are characterised (at least in copyright terms) by significant numbers of owners and exporters of copyright works. Indeed, absent the pressure imposed by their more powerful trading partners, there would arguably be no real incentive for the poorer countries of the region to introduce strong copyright laws into their domestic regimes. 1 Copyright © 2018 Susan Corbett and Jessica C Lai. 2 The Asian Pacific region is defined in the Statutes of the Asian Pacific Copyright Association as ‘the Region embracing the countries and territories located in or bordering on the Pacific Ocean west of the International Date Line’. 1 MAkING COPyRIGHT WORk FOR THE ASIAN PACIFIC? This book aims to address a gap in the copyright discourse by providing a contemporary overview of developing areas of copyright law in the Asian Pacific region, particularly as they pertain to the potential for some degree of regional harmonisation. The time is ripe, with several Asian Pacific jurisdictions, such as China, Hong Kong and Singapore, now reflecting a mature level of scholarship in the field and challenging the regional dominance of frontrunners Australia and New Zealand. In recent years, nations of the Asian Pacific region have been highly active in the realm of free trade agreements (FTAs), and the heated manner in which the copyright provisions have been debated emphasises the importance and complexity of the relationship between copyright, development, trade and society. This book is made up of selected papers from the second annual conference of the Asian Pacific Copyright Association (APCA). APCA was established on 15 November 2011 and includes countries and territories located in or bordering on the Pacific Ocean west of the International Date Line. The purpose of this demarcation was to offer the included countries a forum to discuss issues concerning copyright and related rights, specifically with respect to the region and its particular concerns. Furthermore, APCA aims to ensure that the needs and concerns of the people of the Asian Pacific region are taken into consideration by the international community in all discussions and international negotiations concerning such rights. In view of this, Adrian Sterling, the founder of APCA, drafted a Code in 2015 to spark discussion about the possibility of harmonising protection of copyright and related rights in the Asian Pacific region. In the introduction to the Code, Sterling stated: Undoubtedly, regional harmonisation in this field is of value to right owners and the public …3 … the application of the Code would greatly strengthen the recognition of copyright and related rights in the Asian Pacific Region to the benefit of rights owners, users of protected material and the general public.4 3 Adrian Sterling ‘Asian Pacific Copyright Code’ in this volume at 1 (emphasis added). 4 At 1. 2 INTRODUCTION Underlying these statements are the presumptions that copyright and neighbouring rights are implicitly beneficial and that harmonisation across the region would ultimately be advantageous, from the perspective of right owners, users and the general public. Furthermore, Sterling noted the importance of providing a counter to FTAs, specifically referring to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), which ‘reflect many aspects of United States law which, it is submitted, are not necessarily those which apply
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