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Copyright Extension In Australia

Posted by Hemos on 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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  4. Slashdot please tell me.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please tell me how to feel about this! I don't want to be like some joe six pack. Because we use computers, we are the best.

  5. Offtopic, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What the heck ever happened to Jon Katz?

  6. Mirror Here by herrvinny · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Here's a mirror: http://www.herrvinny.com/slash.pdf for the Allen report.

    Go ahead, I have 6 GB transfer, and it should hold up, or Hostway has explaining to do...

    By the way, I hate to be offtopic and all, but if people could visit herrvinny.com, I'm working on an open source voting program. I already have it with the capability to do write in, check multiple choices, instead of just one, etc. Anyone from UW Madison reading this, I'd like to talk to you about field testing this thing. Server edition should be available next week!

  7. OFFTOPIC, BUT NEEDS TO BE DISCUSSED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WHO IS GETTING MOD POINTS / METAMOD PRIV?

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    What gives? Anyone know?

  8. fucking proxy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    troll help:

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  9. Re:|"Intellectual property" in Australia? by gr0ngb0t · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    how the FUCK is that flamebait? its a point of geographical questioning - Mod - you *do* know that Nirvana were a band fronted by the late Kurt Cobain, and widely hailed by many (mainly those who didnt know there were bands in Seattle doing what Seattle bands had been doing for a fair few years) as the creators of "Grunge"?? Seattle is a fair way across a reasonable size lake called the Pacific Ocean from being in Australia.

    I'll happily take an Offtopic, or even a Redundant (although i dont know how you'd mod it that way) but Flamebait??!??!?!?

    crazy... fucking crazy...