CAG has three major concerns with a

CAG has three major concerns with any proposed expansion of Part VA:
The practical effect of this proposal would be to remove some uses of internet audio-visual ●materials from their current (free) coverage under s.200AB and move them to (remunerated) coverage under Part VA, without any clear policy justification for doing so.
The Convergence Review highlighted the significant practical difficulties of attempting to ●provide a regulatory definition of ‘the transmission of television or radio programs using the internet’. Even if an expanded Part VA could somehow be confined to ‘the online equivalent of television or radio programs,’ it would potentially apply to a much broader range of content than the ALRC appears to anticipate, as the line between ‘TV like’ and ‘other’ kinds of video content continues to blur.
This recommendation would extend to the Part VA licence the problems already experienced ●in relation to internet materials under the Part VB licence. For example, this proposal has the very real potential to result in Australian schools becoming the only users in the world required to pay to use freely available internet video content.