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'Lizzie O’Shea wrote in her recent Overland article How to think left on copyright: ‘A world where every person can read, listen and watch whatever they want at any time is now technologically possible.’ That might be true, but what O’Shea fails to acknowledge is that creating the things that we really want to watch, read or listen to, takes time, effort and money. So, while the current copyright regime certainly does not ‘compensate the majority of authors meaningfully’, it does give authors, and publications such as Overland,* who create original work from scratch, the right to seek payment and attribution for the copying of their work.' (Introduction)