Issues which reached a common view
All the representatives from four stakeholder groups reached agreement on the importance of education on issues of copyright and piracy.
Speaking from the standpoint of a developing country like most countries in Asia Pacific Region where internet penetration is still low, they expressed their concerns on lack of education on both the above issues and internet usage. The later concern led to further issue of digital divide.
Later addressed by the parents group, they expressed their opinions against education of Internet Governance in high school with reasons that they didn’t have any knowledge in this area and have no reason to support this. This to some extend reflected the current situation where the society is deficient in education on understanding copyright and piracy.
Issues where opinions varied
With regard to issues on how to balance the protection and freedom on copyright, different groups delivered various concerns.
For example, representatives from the entertainment company, they suggested that they could imitate models from developed countries or regions to provide an online market. This however in the end more or less was constrained by monetary issue. Although Asia Pacific is one of the fast growing regions, a lot of countries are still in developing stage. The concept of paid entertainment may not be received well.
Despite the suggestion of a protected market, representatives from NGOs challenged that with concerns that more protection may led to limitation of creation. Their suggestion toward the problem was to develop a platform where creators and consumers share different rights so that creators can enjoy more and deliver more quality products. According to this, another question yet to be answered was how do we judge whom are the creators and whom are the consumers.
