Moreover, Australia should wait until the present international negotiations involving a protocol to the Berne convention are complete. By then some international understanding of the contents of a transmission right may have developed. In the meantime the government could take steps to ensure that it had a better empirical understanding of the effects of a transmission right on Australian business. The CCG neglected this issue. Finally, Australian business users should become more involved in the copyright policy process.
Public policy tends to work best when it is driven by a plurality of interests.
It works less well when it is dominated by one group or another. Copyright Act Amendments, Exposure Draft and Commentary, February 1996. Highways to Change , Report of the Copyright Convergence Group, August 1994. Sir Anthony Mason, 'Reading the Future', Paper delivered at the Australian Library Week Oration, Wednesday 1 May 1996, 19-20. 7. The Law Society of New South Wales is the professional association for the solicitors branch of the legal profession in the State of New South Wales, Australia.