Cooking for Copyright
July 2015
On Friday 31 July we asked you to Cook for Copyright to support copyright law reform.
FAIR followers right across Australia took up the challenge of cooking for copyright, helping to raise awareness of our muddled copyright law and supporting our lobbying for immediate reform.
We had incredible support from National and State Libraries Australasia, archive, museum and historical society colleagues, who provided dozens of recipes, ranging from perfect morning tea fodder through to weird medicinal products.
We posted 35 handwritten recipes to the FAIR website – effectively contravening the current copyright law – and we asked Australians to cook one of these recipes – or choose an old favourite – and to post a photo to facebook or tweet with the #cookingforcopyright hashtag.
- 12,666 hits on the webpage
- more than 1,000 participants in more than 100 events
- trended at #1 on Twitter - 1,500 tweets, 9,973,809 Twitter impressions
- radio and TV interviews reaching an audience of 22,783,000 across Australia
You can see the whole picture here:
Cooking for Copyright - Full report
Cooking for Copyright - Summary
What do we want?
Copyright law in Australia is a muddle. The task of untangling the regime currently lies with Senator George Brandis, the Attorney-General.
Our campaign raised awareness of one particular issue – perpetual copyright for unpublished works. While copyright is limited to 70 years after the death of the creator for published works, for unpublished works copyright lasts forever.
Unpublished works include old diaries, letters, company records, theses – even recipes. The copyright rules as they currently stand mean that these manuscripts, are locked away – to no one’s benefit. We’d like the same copyright terms for unpublished works as for published works.
We have been lobbying in Canberra for this change, showing many MPs the results of the campaign.
We're hoping the Australian Government will respond with changes to copyright law that unlocks millions of items, putting them in the public domain.
Media Coverage
- IFLA, 9 July
- SBS, 19 July
- ABC Radio National, 20 July
- ArtsHub, 21 July
- 6PR The Drive, Perth, 22 July
- ABC News 24, 22 July
- 3BA Radio Ballarat, 23 July
- Shire of Campaspe Media Release, 24 July
- ABC Newcastle Drive, 24 July
- 666 ABC Canberra, 24 July
- 91.7 ABC Gold Coast, 25 July
- Radio 4BC Brisbane, 25 July
- ABC Gippsland, 26 July
- ABC Mid North Coast
- 612 Brisbane
- 774 ABC Melbourne, 27 July
- City News, 27 July
- ACT Territory and Municipal Services Directorate Media Release, 27 July
- 4KQ Brisbane, 28 July
- ABC News (Web), 28 July
- 612 ABC Brisbane, 29 July
- 891 ABC Adelaide, 29 July
- Australian Film Television and Radio School - AFTRS FM, 30 July
- ABC Townsville, 31 July
- 891 ABC Adelaide, 31 July
- 2UE with Tim Webster, 1 August
- American Libraries Magazine
- CAMD
- Shepparton News
- Riverine Herald
- ASA ning
- Storify
- The City Journal
- International Librarians Network
- Australian Libraries Copyright Committee
- iDigital Times
- QUT Press Release
- Brisbane Times
- SL Blogs
- Tech Dirt
- Sarah Steed of Libraries ACT talks with Philip Clark on 666 ABC Canberra (18 mins in)
- ACT Government
- Mashable
- IP Pro The Internet
- Trademarks and Brands Online
- Choice Australia
- PS News
- The Age
- Canberra Times
- Brisbane Times
- Sydney Morning Herald
- National and State Libraries Australasia
- Sydney Review of Books
Resources
- A3 Poster
- A4 Poster
- Social media avatar
- Facebook banner
- Graphic
- Email signature
- Media release
- Media release - 20 July
- Media release - 27 July
- Australian Libraries Copyright Committee and Australian Digital Alliance information sheet
- FAQs
- Australian Copyright Council guidance on copyright for recipes
Recipes from the archives
Mustard (for profit by easy deception)
Orange Salad (from chef at Claridge’s London)