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Australia To Adopt U.S.-Style Copyright Laws

Posted by timothy on from the ossifying-officialdom dept.

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."

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  1. This will be great for the economy! by teamhasnoi · · Score: 4, Funny
    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!

  2. the coming election(s) by weighn · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  3. Re:Beginning of a frightening trend? by GloomE · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. Re:Bad news indeed by 0x0d0a · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  5. Re:You sir are wrong. by Alsee · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  6. Re:Beginning of a frightening trend? by Mr+Guy · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  7. Re:Beginning of a frightening trend? by npsimons · · Score: 4, Funny
    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).
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