Australia To Adopt U.S.-Style Copyright Laws

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."

Comments

This will be great for the economy!

[teamhasnoi]

Wow! Think of the billions spent on lawyer cruises to Austrailia!

Wait a minute! Are we just following the lead of the British? Sending our worst criminals, the dregs of society, to Austrailia?

Don't do it Aussies! It's a trap!

the coming election(s)

[weighn]

this insignificant little Australian just wants to know if he'll get a vote in the Presidential elections. You know, now that we're a fully fledged 51st State.

Re:Beginning of a frightening trend?

[GloomE]

If you lived here (in Australia) you'd mod that as "Informative", not "Troll".

Re:Bad news indeed

[0x0d0a]

Your "business" is a travesty of every artistic intention the authors of those works had.

It'd be a ton of fun to lock a copyright nut like you and an anti-IP nut like Stallman in a room with observation windows and see what happens.

Re:You sir are wrong.

[Alsee]

but seriouly, does any country have happy farmers?

Columbia?

You never hear them complaining about access to markets and free trade barriers.

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Re:Don't think this mean going from good to bad

[castrox]

Uh, maybe you should find a new friend, since that one obviously screwed you by selling your stuff on the street.
Your story just doesn't seem right.

Re:Bad news indeed

[NoMaster]

Your "business" is a travesty of every artistic intention the authors of those works had. I don't believe that they (or their descendants) should be allowed to use the law to stop it happening, but you'd think that common courtesy and respect for their efforts would. Obviously not.

Why not use your own creative energies to do something original, rather than ripping off and defacing the work of those more talented than yourself?

Sorry, the Walt Disney discussion is two threads over that-a-way -->...

Re:Beginning of a frightening trend?

[Mr Guy]

That's "giving" as in hepatitis not "giving" as in Christmas.

Re:You sir are wrong.

[glesga_kiss]

Funny how freetrade enables white colar jobs to move oversea;s but farming is untouchable.

There is a reason behind this though. When World War III kicks off, you'll be glad of the locally grown food. "Yes, we have no bananas" as the song said.

Re:Beginning of a frightening trend?

[npsimons]

In this country we do not so much vote for an Australian Government to govern us, as vote for a regional outpost of the United States administration who we hope will interpret American interests and policies in our favour.

You think that's bad? In America, we don't even get the president we vote for! And of course, in Soviet Russia, the government votes FOR YOU (to go to a gulag, or something).

Re:You brought it on yourselves.

[Max Threshold]

Of course not. Read slowly and pay attention.

The U.S. Government has been rounding up guns for years, and the result was the DMCA and everything else. Where they haven't succeeded in actually taking our guns, they've succeeded in making anyone who owns one feel isolated and powerless.

Australia starts outlawing guns, people give them up without a fight, and wham... a couple years later you have a puppet government. Coincidence? I think not!