[plug] [OT] Australia To Adopt U.S.-Style Copyright Laws

[Bernd Felsche]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:53:06PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 20:35, James Devenish wrote:
> > One of the several pitfalls of the AUSFTA (which apparently mirror
> > many of those imposed upon Canada as part of the North American "Free
> > Trade" Agreement), is this "harmonisation" with the USA. Apparently,
> > these problems were known publicly (and I followed some discussion of
> > them in recent weeks), but the media were mostly (entirely?)
> > uninterested in pointing them out. The AUSFTA still needs to be given
> > assent by the US and Australian governments before it comes into
> > effect.

> Sounds like the school system. Up The Garden Path, sorry, Pathways To 
> Learning was demonstrated to be broken in Canada, which produced a 
> generation of illiterates after 12 years of PTL. The Australian gummint 
> adopted it, and when they were criticised for so doing, said, "well 
> it's up to us to make it work then, isn't it". <thwack>

> The question is, what can we do about it now? I've already asked DFAT, 
> does anyone have other ideas?

External treaties do not make laws in Australia.

It says so in the Constitution. :-)

Corresponding legislation has to be drafted and go through the
regular process. By that time, we'll all be able to tie hangman's
nooses blindfolded if the laws get past the first reading.

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