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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. Re:Sweet Baby Jebus by blackpaw · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    (insert obligatory sheep shagging comment here)

    No no no - sheep shagging is *New Zealand*, you're thinking of Kangoroo shagging

  2. Re:The Austrailian Constitution? by relrelrel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The American Bill of Rights was also inherited from English Law. I've heard of Americans making pilgrimages to England to see the original.

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  3. Re:This is completely rediculous. by relrelrel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The EU started out as a free-trade agreement, now it has power over member states, and soon it will have a president and will be a fully-fledged federal govt.

    It's a trap, but a trap the countries are too stupid to realise.

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