The proposal to expand Part VA to apply to this kind of content would potentially result in Australian schools being required to pay millions of dollars to use content that they are currently permitted to use under s.200AB, as this has been assessed as a use that would be permitted by s.200AB.
Requiring Australian schools to pay to use this freely available internet video content would create a very real disincentive for Australian schools to make full use of digital technology and high-speed broadband in the classroom at the very time that we are witnessing an explosion of freely available, innovative content created with the intention that it be used by teachers and students throughout the world without payment. CAG submits that there is simply no policy justification to support any