Dear Public Policy wikifolk,
As some of you may be aware, I've been working with Jessica Coates (cc'd) - of the Australian Digital Alliance(ADA) - formerly from Creative Commons international - on a Wikimedia advocacy campaign in Australia with regards to the possibility that Fair Use legislation could be introduced into the Australian Copyright Act. This has been recommended many times before by various government enquiries, and the Library and Education sectors of Australia have long hoped for its introduction. Our current system - known as Fair Dealing - is extremely limiting and prescriptive, which is why it was illegal, for example, to use a personal VCR recorder in Australia until 2006, just to take one example...
Having sought and received confirmation from WMF-Legal that the proposal is technically and legally allowable, and also received confirmation from the ADA that their staff/communications/documentation resources would be available to do the 'heavy lifting' in terms of public communications, I have been running this straw poll/consultation with the Australian, english-Wikipedia community:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_boa...
You can see there the details of the proposed advocacy campaign on-wiki, and also the background details of why this legal issue is relevant right now in the Australian political landscape.
In short - I'm proposing to run banners on en.wp to logged out users in the Australian-IP range who are viewing WP articles which include a Fair Use image (e.g. corporate logo, album cover, film title card...), which will point them to a landing page [probably on meta] explaining what Fair Use in Australia would mean in practice, and why it's not nearly as scary as the Copyright Lobby would have them believe. It can then point people to further resources on the ADA website, ask them to contact their local politician on the matter etc. [I do NOT intend for wikimedians to be collecting a petition]. In this regard it is rather similar to the FoP advocacy campaign run in Europe.
here's some local political context: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/productivity-commission-to-say-fair-use-could-... and here's a video that ADA produced a couple of years ago for their previous lobbying campaign in this topic (which was pitched to an audience of online-creative industry in general) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ACreationistas_-_Austr... And here's the actual government enquiry report which is currently sitting in front of the politicans waiting for a formal reply: http://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/completed/intellectual-property/report
As you can see at the Straw Poll/Consultation page the comments so far are heavily (though not unanimously) in favour of running this advocacy campaign on-wiki. It has been advertised through watchlist notifications in the Australian IP range, emails to the Australian-chapter mailing list, as well as talkpage notices to the 1700 people in the category:Australian Wikipedians.
So, as people involved in wikimedia/open-access advocacy in general, you're welcome to comment on that page yourselves (though - do please indicate if you're actually going to be affected by this proposal, since it's only going to be visible in Australia). Equally - I'd love your feedback and help in designing the banner and landing page (on meta?) IF the consultation is eventually closed as demonstrating confirmed relevant-community consensus to support. Obviously there's a Communications side of this as well.
Sincerely, Liam / Wittylama
wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata
Update on this thread:
The on-wiki discussion has now been admin-closed, an extract from the closing statement reads:
The result of this discussion is that there is a broad consensus to have a
banner for readers in Australia about the proposed change to Australian law. There is precedent for this form of advocacy, particularly around Freedom of Panorama. The consensus supports raising the awareness of readers in Australia, while ensuring readers are “empower[ed] … to get access to knowledge and information” (wording from WMF Legal).
(for the full closing statement, go to : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_boa... )
Subsequent to this, a video-conf meeting was held including representatives of WMF, Australian Digital Alliance, Electronic Frontiers Australia to 'get the ball rolling'.* Most importantly, the timing recommendation from ADA is that there will *probably* be other related legislation debated in federal parliament (regarding to 'Safe Harbours') in the near future - so Fair Use discussion will not be centre-stage until *probably* May. This is our working-theory timeframe for a banner campaign. So as not to bore people here with ongoing updates - I've created a project page on Meta with a timeline etc:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fair_Use_in_Australia
That will be, eventually, where the banners' landing page will be. For any really major updates (such as, that we're close to 'launch') I'll put a note here (and on the Australian Wikipedians' Noticeboard). Meanwhile, if you'd like to be involved in drafting the landing page etc, please watchlist that page on Meta.
Also arising from the community discussion is the draft "History of Fair Use proposals in Australia" page (currently in my userspace draft) - help improving that before moving to mainspace would be appreciated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wittylama/History_of_Fair_Use_proposals_i...
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this discussion thus far, - Liam / Wittylama
*5 Australian-based en.wp admins were invited but unfortunately none could make it - just so you know that I am trying my best to be as transparent as possible about all this :-)
wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata
On 3 March 2017 at 18:20, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Public Policy wikifolk,
As some of you may be aware, I've been working with Jessica Coates (cc'd)
- of the Australian Digital Alliance(ADA) - formerly from Creative Commons
international - on a Wikimedia advocacy campaign in Australia with regards to the possibility that Fair Use legislation could be introduced into the Australian Copyright Act. This has been recommended many times before by various government enquiries, and the Library and Education sectors of Australia have long hoped for its introduction. Our current system - known as Fair Dealing - is extremely limiting and prescriptive, which is why it was illegal, for example, to use a personal VCR recorder in Australia until 2006, just to take one example...
Having sought and received confirmation from WMF-Legal that the proposal is technically and legally allowable, and also received confirmation from the ADA that their staff/communications/documentation resources would be available to do the 'heavy lifting' in terms of public communications, I have been running this straw poll/consultation with the Australian, english-Wikipedia community:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_ Wikipedians%27_notice_board#Fair_Use_campaign_-_Next_steps
You can see there the details of the proposed advocacy campaign on-wiki, and also the background details of why this legal issue is relevant right now in the Australian political landscape.
In short - I'm proposing to run banners on en.wp to logged out users in the Australian-IP range who are viewing WP articles which include a Fair Use image (e.g. corporate logo, album cover, film title card...), which will point them to a landing page [probably on meta] explaining what Fair Use in Australia would mean in practice, and why it's not nearly as scary as the Copyright Lobby would have them believe. It can then point people to further resources on the ADA website, ask them to contact their local politician on the matter etc. [I do NOT intend for wikimedians to be collecting a petition]. In this regard it is rather similar to the FoP advocacy campaign run in Europe.
here's some local political context: http://www.smh.com. au/comment/productivity-commission-to-say-fair-use- could-get-us-ahead-and-end-the-copyright-protection- racket-20161214-gtau3u.html and here's a video that ADA produced a couple of years ago for their previous lobbying campaign in this topic (which was pitched to an audience of online-creative industry in general) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File% 3ACreationistas_-_Australian_Copyright_Is_Broken.webm And here's the actual government enquiry report which is currently sitting in front of the politicans waiting for a formal reply: http://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/completed/intellectual-property/report
As you can see at the Straw Poll/Consultation page the comments so far are heavily (though not unanimously) in favour of running this advocacy campaign on-wiki. It has been advertised through watchlist notifications in the Australian IP range, emails to the Australian-chapter mailing list, as well as talkpage notices to the 1700 people in the category:Australian Wikipedians.
So, as people involved in wikimedia/open-access advocacy in general, you're welcome to comment on that page yourselves (though - do please indicate if you're actually going to be affected by this proposal, since it's only going to be visible in Australia). Equally - I'd love your feedback and help in designing the banner and landing page (on meta?) IF the consultation is eventually closed as demonstrating confirmed relevant-community consensus to support. Obviously there's a Communications side of this as well.
Sincerely, Liam / Wittylama
wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata
Thanks, Liam!
I don't have much to contribute at this point, but I just want to express my appreciation for keeping us updated. Will you also inform comcom when the timeline is clear, so that they are aware in case it leads to press questions?
Best, Lodewijk
2017-03-20 17:23 GMT+01:00 Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com:
Update on this thread:
The on-wiki discussion has now been admin-closed, an extract from the closing statement reads:
The result of this discussion is that there is a broad consensus to have a
banner for readers in Australia about the proposed change to Australian law. There is precedent for this form of advocacy, particularly around Freedom of Panorama. The consensus supports raising the awareness of readers in Australia, while ensuring readers are “empower[ed] … to get access to knowledge and information” (wording from WMF Legal).
(for the full closing statement, go to : https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_board# Fair_use_campaign:_next_steps )
Subsequent to this, a video-conf meeting was held including representatives of WMF, Australian Digital Alliance, Electronic Frontiers Australia to 'get the ball rolling'.* Most importantly, the timing recommendation from ADA is that there will *probably* be other related legislation debated in federal parliament (regarding to 'Safe Harbours') in the near future - so Fair Use discussion will not be centre-stage until *probably* May. This is our working-theory timeframe for a banner campaign. So as not to bore people here with ongoing updates - I've created a project page on Meta with a timeline etc:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fair_Use_in_Australia
That will be, eventually, where the banners' landing page will be. For any really major updates (such as, that we're close to 'launch') I'll put a note here (and on the Australian Wikipedians' Noticeboard). Meanwhile, if you'd like to be involved in drafting the landing page etc, please watchlist that page on Meta.
Also arising from the community discussion is the draft "History of Fair Use proposals in Australia" page (currently in my userspace draft) - help improving that before moving to mainspace would be appreciated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wittylama/History_of_Fair_Use_ proposals_in_Australia
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this discussion thus far,
- Liam / Wittylama
*5 Australian-based en.wp admins were invited but unfortunately none could make it - just so you know that I am trying my best to be as transparent as possible about all this :-)
wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata
On 3 March 2017 at 18:20, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Public Policy wikifolk,
As some of you may be aware, I've been working with Jessica Coates (cc'd)
- of the Australian Digital Alliance(ADA) - formerly from Creative Commons
international - on a Wikimedia advocacy campaign in Australia with regards to the possibility that Fair Use legislation could be introduced into the Australian Copyright Act. This has been recommended many times before by various government enquiries, and the Library and Education sectors of Australia have long hoped for its introduction. Our current system - known as Fair Dealing - is extremely limiting and prescriptive, which is why it was illegal, for example, to use a personal VCR recorder in Australia until 2006, just to take one example...
Having sought and received confirmation from WMF-Legal that the proposal is technically and legally allowable, and also received confirmation from the ADA that their staff/communications/documentation resources would be available to do the 'heavy lifting' in terms of public communications, I have been running this straw poll/consultation with the Australian, english-Wikipedia community:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedia ns%27_notice_board#Fair_Use_campaign_-_Next_steps
You can see there the details of the proposed advocacy campaign on-wiki, and also the background details of why this legal issue is relevant right now in the Australian political landscape.
In short - I'm proposing to run banners on en.wp to logged out users in the Australian-IP range who are viewing WP articles which include a Fair Use image (e.g. corporate logo, album cover, film title card...), which will point them to a landing page [probably on meta] explaining what Fair Use in Australia would mean in practice, and why it's not nearly as scary as the Copyright Lobby would have them believe. It can then point people to further resources on the ADA website, ask them to contact their local politician on the matter etc. [I do NOT intend for wikimedians to be collecting a petition]. In this regard it is rather similar to the FoP advocacy campaign run in Europe.
here's some local political context: http://www.smh.com.au /comment/productivity-commission-to-say-fair-use-could-get- us-ahead-and-end-the-copyright-protection-racket-20161214-gtau3u.html and here's a video that ADA produced a couple of years ago for their previous lobbying campaign in this topic (which was pitched to an audience of online-creative industry in general) https://commons.wikimedia.org/ w/index.php?title=File%3ACreationistas_-_Australian_Copyrigh t_Is_Broken.webm And here's the actual government enquiry report which is currently sitting in front of the politicans waiting for a formal reply: http://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/completed/intellectual-property/report
As you can see at the Straw Poll/Consultation page the comments so far are heavily (though not unanimously) in favour of running this advocacy campaign on-wiki. It has been advertised through watchlist notifications in the Australian IP range, emails to the Australian-chapter mailing list, as well as talkpage notices to the 1700 people in the category:Australian Wikipedians.
So, as people involved in wikimedia/open-access advocacy in general, you're welcome to comment on that page yourselves (though - do please indicate if you're actually going to be affected by this proposal, since it's only going to be visible in Australia). Equally - I'd love your feedback and help in designing the banner and landing page (on meta?) IF the consultation is eventually closed as demonstrating confirmed relevant-community consensus to support. Obviously there's a Communications side of this as well.
Sincerely, Liam / Wittylama
wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata
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Good idea. A representative of WMF-Comms was present in the initial video-conf meeting, and SLaporte from WMF-Legal confirmed he would ensure the relevant department heads were informed/consenting (as per the relevant WMF policy on promotional use of website assets). So even if I forget to personally inform Comcom it should be caught via one of those methods. Our next checkin on this topic will be in Berlin on the sidelines of wmConf so if others here are also especially keen on being involved directly (and will also be in Berlin) please tell me offlist and I'll make sure to invite you when we work out when we'll be having our planning meeting. -Liam
Il giorno lun 20 mar 2017 alle 17:33 L.Gelauff lgelauff@gmail.com ha scritto:
Thanks, Liam!
I don't have much to contribute at this point, but I just want to express my appreciation for keeping us updated. Will you also inform comcom when the timeline is clear, so that they are aware in case it leads to press questions?
Best, Lodewijk
2017-03-20 17:23 GMT+01:00 Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com:
Update on this thread:
The on-wiki discussion has now been admin-closed, an extract from the closing statement reads:
The result of this discussion is that there is a broad consensus to have a banner for readers in Australia about the proposed change to Australian law. There is precedent for this form of advocacy, particularly around Freedom of Panorama. The consensus supports raising the awareness of readers in Australia, while ensuring readers are “empower[ed] … to get access to knowledge and information” (wording from WMF Legal).
(for the full closing statement, go to : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_boa... )
Subsequent to this, a video-conf meeting was held including representatives of WMF, Australian Digital Alliance, Electronic Frontiers Australia to 'get the ball rolling'.* Most importantly, the timing recommendation from ADA is that there will *probably* be other related legislation debated in federal parliament (regarding to 'Safe Harbours') in the near future - so Fair Use discussion will not be centre-stage until *probably* May. This is our working-theory timeframe for a banner campaign. So as not to bore people here with ongoing updates - I've created a project page on Meta with a timeline etc:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fair_Use_in_Australia
That will be, eventually, where the banners' landing page will be. For any really major updates (such as, that we're close to 'launch') I'll put a note here (and on the Australian Wikipedians' Noticeboard). Meanwhile, if you'd like to be involved in drafting the landing page etc, please watchlist that page on Meta.
Also arising from the community discussion is the draft "History of Fair Use proposals in Australia" page (currently in my userspace draft) - help improving that before moving to mainspace would be appreciated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wittylama/History_of_Fair_Use_proposals_i...
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this discussion thus far,
- Liam / Wittylama
*5 Australian-based en.wp admins were invited but unfortunately none could make it - just so you know that I am trying my best to be as transparent as possible about all this :-)
wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata
On 3 March 2017 at 18:20, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Public Policy wikifolk,
As some of you may be aware, I've been working with Jessica Coates (cc'd)
- of the Australian Digital Alliance(ADA) - formerly from Creative Commons
international - on a Wikimedia advocacy campaign in Australia with regards to the possibility that Fair Use legislation could be introduced into the Australian Copyright Act. This has been recommended many times before by various government enquiries, and the Library and Education sectors of Australia have long hoped for its introduction. Our current system - known as Fair Dealing - is extremely limiting and prescriptive, which is why it was illegal, for example, to use a personal VCR recorder in Australia until 2006, just to take one example...
Having sought and received confirmation from WMF-Legal that the proposal is technically and legally allowable, and also received confirmation from the ADA that their staff/communications/documentation resources would be available to do the 'heavy lifting' in terms of public communications, I have been running this straw poll/consultation with the Australian, english-Wikipedia community:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_boa...
You can see there the details of the proposed advocacy campaign on-wiki, and also the background details of why this legal issue is relevant right now in the Australian political landscape.
In short - I'm proposing to run banners on en.wp to logged out users in the Australian-IP range who are viewing WP articles which include a Fair Use image (e.g. corporate logo, album cover, film title card...), which will point them to a landing page [probably on meta] explaining what Fair Use in Australia would mean in practice, and why it's not nearly as scary as the Copyright Lobby would have them believe. It can then point people to further resources on the ADA website, ask them to contact their local politician on the matter etc. [I do NOT intend for wikimedians to be collecting a petition]. In this regard it is rather similar to the FoP advocacy campaign run in Europe.
here's some local political context: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/productivity-commission-to-say-fair-use-could-... and here's a video that ADA produced a couple of years ago for their previous lobbying campaign in this topic (which was pitched to an audience of online-creative industry in general) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ACreationistas_-_Austr... And here's the actual government enquiry report which is currently sitting in front of the politicans waiting for a formal reply: http://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/completed/intellectual-property/report
As you can see at the Straw Poll/Consultation page the comments so far are heavily (though not unanimously) in favour of running this advocacy campaign on-wiki. It has been advertised through watchlist notifications in the Australian IP range, emails to the Australian-chapter mailing list, as well as talkpage notices to the 1700 people in the category:Australian Wikipedians.
So, as people involved in wikimedia/open-access advocacy in general, you're welcome to comment on that page yourselves (though - do please indicate if you're actually going to be affected by this proposal, since it's only going to be visible in Australia). Equally - I'd love your feedback and help in designing the banner and landing page (on meta?) IF the consultation is eventually closed as demonstrating confirmed relevant-community consensus to support. Obviously there's a Communications side of this as well.
Sincerely, Liam / Wittylama
wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata
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Ciao all again,
Quick update on the Fair Use advocacy campaign in Australia. [If you don't know what I'm talking about - see https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/publicpolicy/2017-March/001601.html ]
This is now set to launch on MONDAY morning, Australian Eastern time [this Sunday night UTC]. It will correspond with some mainstream media articles that notable friendly journalists have - we hope - filed for publication that day.
WMF-legal, Comms, the ADA, EFA and some other local organisations are aware/ready. We have some pre-announce embargoed press releases going out as well as things on the day (including a post on the Wikimedia blog).
The banner texts are here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fair_Use_in_Australia/Banners The landing page on Meta is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fair_Use_in_Australia The 'take action' campaign site (which will have a life longer than the wikipedia campaign) is here: https://www.faircopyright.org.au/ The social media account is https://twitter.com/faircopyrightoz and hashtag is #FairCopyrightOz Please follow that and retweet things :-)
Following some technical changes to the banner requirements (see here for details if you're interested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_boa... ) we will be launching with 50% visibility of the banners on Monday, dropping back to a low percentage for the following few weeks.
Also of note, the mainspace wikipedia article on the general issue is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Fair_Use_proposals_in_Australia
Sincerely, -Liam / Wittylama
p.s. I am not on the ComCom list, but could someone please share this info with them so they're aware.
Ciao all,
Following up on this thread from several months ago - Regarding the Australia 'fair use' banner campaign.
TD;DR version - the result is 'no result', and all sides go back to the beginning.
The Australian government has now officially made its reply to the report (which it was legally required to do by the end of the year). The report was commissioned by the government several years ago, and published last year - by the 'Productivity Commission' on the topic of 'intellectual property arrangements'. One, possibly the biggest, recommendation of that report was for Aus to introduce Fair Use copyright exception, but many other parts of the report exist to which are irrelevant to our purposes (e.g. patent law etc.) See this for details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fair_use_proposals_in_Australia#Pro...
The Government's reply on issue of Fair Use is:
The Government *notes* this recommendation and will further consult.
The Government’s aim is to create a modernised copyright exceptions framework that keeps pace with technological advances and is flexible to adapt to future changes. There are arguments that Australia’s current exceptions for fair dealing are restrictive when compared with international counterparts and may not permit some reasonable fair uses of copyright material. However, this is a complex issue and there are different approaches available to address it.
The Government will publicly consult on more flexible copyright exceptions. Consultation will occur in early 2018 following the finalisation of other copyright reform priorities, such as the Government’s review of the Copyright Regulations, and the Collecting Societies’ Voluntary Code of Conduct, and will align with the Government’s consideration of how best to implement recommendations 5.1 and 6.2. This timeframe will also provide adequate time to properly consider the complexities of possible changes, and gather more detailed information on the regulatory impact of any changes.
Ref. page 7, here: https://www.industry.gov.au/innovation/Intellectual-Property/Documents/Gover...
Where other recommendations receive a "support", "support in principle" or "does not support" response, this one receives only a "notes" response. That is - they are not going to jump one way or the other on this issue and notwithstanding DECADES of reports and consultations (see the above 'history of fair use proposals in Australia' WP article) there will be "further consultation". BOTH the opponents and proponents of Fair Use for Australia have published press-releases saying the "welcome" the response and will doubtless be the same groups gearing-up to fight the next round of this boxing match...
I suppose that at least we should be glad they've left the door open and not directly rejected the idea, but it feels to me like I've wasted a lot of time and effort. The government was *always* going to do whatever was its existing policies and recommendations contrary to the party policy go nowhere (this counts for all parties in Australia - not just the current governing party). This is not withstanding that our project generated [probably] the largest grassroots letter-to-your-MP campaign on a copyright topic in Australian history (seriously: 10k people writing to their politicians about proposed changes to copyright exceptions? That's unheard of!) This whole commissioned-report and multiple rounds consultation has produced an official result of "more discussion needed" due to a lack of political motivation to make any change to the status-quo. If they'd rejected the idea outright then at least we could have a sense of righteous indignation :-P
- Liam / Wittylama
p.s. For those interested: Joseph Seddon and I also presented on the project during wikimania this year, which was before the Aus Government reply was published. - slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Uw8gfTVtHBwnaLQ8ut0f0k1zplfVhvKWEJW6... - video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNmZj2wHNek
Sincerely, -Liam/Wittylama
wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata
On 18 May 2017 at 15:59, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
Ciao all again,
Quick update on the Fair Use advocacy campaign in Australia. [If you don't know what I'm talking about - see https://lists.wikimedia. org/pipermail/publicpolicy/2017-March/001601.html ]
This is now set to launch on MONDAY morning, Australian Eastern time [this Sunday night UTC]. It will correspond with some mainstream media articles that notable friendly journalists have - we hope - filed for publication that day.
WMF-legal, Comms, the ADA, EFA and some other local organisations are aware/ready. We have some pre-announce embargoed press releases going out as well as things on the day (including a post on the Wikimedia blog).
The banner texts are here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fair_Use_in_Australia/Banners The landing page on Meta is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fair_Use_in_Australia The 'take action' campaign site (which will have a life longer than the wikipedia campaign) is here: https://www.faircopyright.org.au/ The social media account is https://twitter.com/faircopyrightoz and hashtag is #FairCopyrightOz Please follow that and retweet things :-)
Following some technical changes to the banner requirements (see here for details if you're interested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_board#Fair_Use_campaign_update ) we will be launching with 50% visibility of the banners on Monday, dropping back to a low percentage for the following few weeks.
Also of note, the mainspace wikipedia article on the general issue is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Fair_Use_proposals_in_Australia
Sincerely, -Liam / Wittylama
p.s. I am not on the ComCom list, but could someone please share this info with them so they're aware.
publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org