In Sept. 16 press releases Access Copyright and some of their publisher members continue to obfuscate their attempt to impose a single business model on all creators publishing on the Internet. They recognize that "creators choice must be respected", and yet the thrust of their lobbying efforts have been to eradicate creators choice.
The technology of the Internet allows creators a full spectrum of options, and to easily indicate whether they wish their material to be royalty-free for basic access (Non-commercial verbatim copying) by placing it on an anonymous part of the Internet, or indicate that royalty payments might be expected by putting the material behind some form of audience authentication. The Access Copyright proposal is for this special interest group to be granted the right to levy (tax) the anonymous part of the Internet, using statistics to exclude only the small part of the Internet where lawyer-friendly royalty-free copyright licenses have further clarified the royalty-free status of a work published via a royalty-free part of the Internet. (See also: C-60 already represents a radical change for schools)
