Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Briefly, I do not think I disagree with Senator Milne. What the government is saying, though, is that we think the issue of joint ownership is sufficiently addressed in the bill as it currently stands. It does provide for works of joint authorship, meaning a work produced by the collaboration of two or more artists where the contribution of each is not separate from the contribution of the other artists. We think this sort of approach mirrors the treatment of joint authorship in the Copyright Act and sufficiently meets the issues raised by Senator Milne.

Question negatived.