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Matthew Hall, who’s running the Digital Agenda review at Phillips Fox, presented this paper (doc format) in New Zealand earlier this month, which discusses some of the findings of the review so far. Some excerpts:

Presently, no economic data supporting the additional costs that are being or are likely to be incurred or that demonstrate how (and the extent to which) any costs savings generated by [squid proxies, etc] would be passed onto consumers has been made available to the review. Similarly, no economic data supporting any argument that this activity does, in fact, divert sales or otherwise adversely impact on an owner’s legitimate entitlements or markets has been made available.

There are no time or format shifting exceptions in the Australian Act. However, inclusion of these matters are issues being advocated by users’ interests and opposed by owners’ interests.

There’s some other interesting stuff in there about what’s going on in NZ.