Conditions for a Sharenet
This document is an archived material written during the development of the
AEShareNet system and website. It is retained on the site solely for those
interested in tracking the history of the initiative.
The VET sector in Australia exhibits a number of important characteristics which have made it difficult in the past to conduct copyright licensing activities efficiently, and which suggest that a ShareNet approach to copyright licensing would yield improvements.
Set out below are some key characteristics of the VET sector:
- a clearly defined industry/sector
- many stakeholders in the VET sector
- trading in/distributing a substantial body of VET materials
- some material acquires value from use/standardisation, rather than from being rationed
- need for frequent exchange: free/low cost; casual
- proper formalities are uneconomic using conventional approaches to legal documentation
- exchange is inhibited or occurs in ignorance/contempt of copyright
- recurring elements in basic transactions
- complex relationships between players
- incessant change in infrastructure and institutions in the sector
- difficult to predict trends
- efficient exchange in the "ShareNet" would give competitive advantage outside
The proposed AEShareNet system is a multilateral framework for copyright licensing which should be better adapted to these circumstances than existing, bilateral licensing activities.
See Also
- VET copyright licensing activities