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

[Shayne O'Neill]

Fear your leaders people.

I'd say its time to start writing angry letters *NOW*

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On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Sham Chukoury wrote:

> Anyone seen this on slashdot yet?
>
> http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/09/0211225.shtml?tid=99
>
> <quote from="slashdot post">
> An anonymous reader submits "Australia has just announced that it has
> finalized a Free Trade Agreement with the United States. Included in the
> treaty is an agreement for Australia to implement American-style DMCA
> copyright laws, extensions to the term of copyright, and an agreement to
> move towards American-style patent and trademark laws (and we all know
> how well those work, don't we.) I suppose this is the
> misery-loves-company school of treaty negotiation."
> </quote>
>
> related links:
> http://www.ferret.com.au/articles/11/0c01d811.asp
> http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/negotiations/us_fta/outcomes/08_intellectual_property.html
>
>
> :( @ DMCA
> :( @ copyright extensions
> :( @ crappy american patent system
>
> §:|
>
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