Country case studies

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Best and worst practices to examine:

Netherlands with its personal copying exception (authors of previous report contacted)
Japan with its hardware copying levies (Canada has media levies, but doesn't legalise personal copying)
Finland with its photocopier levy
Thailand with its exception for unavailable books - contact Pichai Phuechmongkol about this
India with its compulsory licence of sports signals for the national broadcaster
China with its IPⁱ abuse laws - investigate the possibility for abuse for other reasons than antitrust (George Yijun Tian to be contacted)
Holland and Denmark are trialling allowing collecting society members to dual licence their work under CC (unlike APRA/AMCOS)
Brazil has introduced Semi-Metalic Disc (SMD) technology to compete with pirate discs
In Egypt must pay a licence fee to use public domainⁱ material! Similarly Italy has a provision that its cultural works never pass into the public domain.
UK protects faithful reproductions of 2D images.
Germany and Australia have collecting agencies that collect for free content (such as Wikipedia) (Wikipedia would prefer reducing the levy based on the proportion of free content used: contact Mathias Schindler.)
Longest copyrightⁱ term in the world is in Mexico.