Copyright Extension In Australia

Posted by Hemos on Thursday October 23, 2003 @03:50PM from the spanning-the-years dept.

femto writes "The Motion Picture Association and APRA have commissioned a report from Allen Consulting into the effects of extending Australian copyright from life+50 years to life+70years. This forms the MPA and APRA's contribution to US-Australian free trade negotiations, currently underway. The report recommends that copyright terms should be extended. An extension of copyright would not be in Australia's interest. Some would argue that it is not in anyone's interest. Projects such as Project Gutenberg of Australia would be adversely affected by such an extension. Perhaps now is to time to write to your Member of Parliament, asking them to oppose any extension of copyright or patents, and shore up whatever resistance there is to an extension of IP in Australia?"

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That's right by vandan · 2003-10-23 17:05 · Score: 4, Informative

The FTA is nothing but bad news for Australia.
If nothing else, it further entagles us with the lunatic foreign policy of the US.

But of course the bad news doesn't stop there. Health care, local media content, copyright law, drug law, terrorist law, foreign ownership, ... the list goes on and on.

For those who are interested, the ISO is holding a social forum this weekend, and will be discussing just such issues, and many more. It starts tonight ( 7pm ) and goes until Sunday. It's at UTS. See http://www.sydneysocialforum.org for more details. Honestly, this is the best place to discuss the issues involving the FTA, and build resistance groups to lobby the government. See you there!