I am not sure if we have any media present at this morning's hearing but if so if they could make themselves known to Anderson, our colleague at the back of the room and will explain the rules regarding media. Finally, to comply with the requirements of the Commonwealth Occupational Health and Safety Legislation, we advise that in the unlikely event of an emergency requiring the evacuation of this building that the exits are located from the terrace room just outside and on your left. Your assembly point is the terraced area outside this room where you will then be directed by the area warden to the exit point via Chelsea Lane Way to take you to the corner of Turbot Street and North Quay. If you require assistance please speak to one of our inquiry team members here today. Participants are invited to make some opening remarks, no more than five minutes. Keeping the opening remarks brief will allow us the opportunity to discuss matters and participants' points raised in participants' submissions in greater detail. Participants are welcome to comment on the issues raised in other submissions however with ground rules relating to the opening remarks. I will stop there and I would now like to ask Nicholas, who is at the table, our first participant. So if you could, for the purposes of the transcript, give your name and organisation and then, when you are ready, if you would like to give brief opening remarks, thank you. DR Thank you. My name is Nicolas Suzor, I am a senior research fellow from Queensland University of Technology. I am here today in my academic capacity but I am also happy to speak about the submissions of the two NGOs that I am involved with, Creative Commons Australia and Digital Rights Watch. So first, I would like to thank the Commission both for holding a hearing and inviting us here today, but also for a really comprehensive and quite careful thorough evidence based report. This is an area that has typically not been marked by evidence-based policy. Copyright development is typically driven by essentially by a lack of good empirical economic analysis. And into that comes a mess of special interests lobbying and law making. I think it is heartening to see the Productivity Commission's move in this report to really try to inject some evidence based policy making into Australian policy, we see this report particularly building on the fairly careful reports of other submissions, other bodies, over the last 15 years. Unfortunately one of the big challenges that we have had is translating the work, the careful work, of many different reporting teams into policy change, meaningful policy change.
I am not sure if we have any media present at this morning's hearing but if so if they could make themselves known to Anderson, our colleague at the back of the room and will explain the rules regarding media. Finally, to comply with the requirements of the Commonwealth Occupational Health and Safety Legislation, we advise that in the unlikely event of an emergency requiring the evacuation of this building that the exits are located from the terrace room just outside and on your left. Your assembly point is the terraced area outside this room where you will then be directed by the area warden to the exit point via Chelsea Lane Way to take you to the corner of Turbot Street and North Quay. If you require assistance please speak to one of our inquiry team members here today. Participants are invited to make some opening remarks, no more than five minutes. Keeping the opening remarks brief will allow us the opportunity to discuss matters and participants' points raised in participants' submissions in greater detail. Participants are welcome to comment on the issues raised in other submissions however with ground rules relating to the opening remarks. I will stop there and I would now like to ask Nicholas, who is at the table, our first participant. So if you could, for the purposes of the transcript, give your name and organisation and then, when you are ready, if you would like to give brief opening remarks, thank you. DR Thank you. My name is Nicolas Suzor, I am a senior research fellow from Queensland University of Technology. I am here today in my academic capacity but I am also happy to speak about the submissions of the two NGOs that I am involved with, Creative Commons Australia and Digital Rights Watch. So first, I would like to thank the Commission both for holding a hearing and inviting us here today, but also for a really comprehensive and quite careful thorough evidence based report. This is an area that has typically not been marked by evidence-based policy. Copyright development is typically driven by essentially by a lack of good empirical economic analysis. And into that comes a mess of special interests lobbying and law making. I think it is heartening to see the Productivity Commission's move in this report to really try to inject some evidence based policy making into Australian policy, we see this report particularly building on the fairly careful reports of other submissions, other bodies, over the last 15 years. Unfortunately one of the big challenges that we have had is translating the work, the careful work, of many different reporting teams into policy change, meaningful policy change.
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