There appears to be agreement that the currently applicable copyright laws in Australia are outdated and not suitable to the modern world where information generation, transmission, and engagement are markedly different from when the original conception of copyright was produced.
The laws themselves are written in general terms meaning that ongoing interpretation is required within each decision making process and missteps likely along the way.
The impetus within an educational context is to then be within the letter of the law for when the punitive and complete sweep of what has been photocopied in the staff room or hosted on school content management systems is analysed the school is to be punished without mercy for any infringement and the maximum capital extraction through penalties is to be implemented in order to satisfy our oppositional legal system and uncaring neoliberal framework.
Given that, as Bourdieu claims, education is the reproduction of society surely it is in the best interest of societies to allow students, at the very least in the underfunded public system, access in as many ways as possible to the cultural inheritance that has been produced.
When someone is being enculturated it makes the least sense to involve money unless inequality is part of what you wish to reproduce.
