Australia to Get Software Patents and Anti-Circumvention Laws

Posted by michael on Tuesday August 3, 2004 @03:20AM from the crikey dept.

Marlor writes "Australia's main opposition party have just confirmed that they will be supporting the Free Trade Agreement with the USA. This means that Australia will be adopting DMCA-style laws and Software Patents in the name of 'harmonizing IP laws with the USA', despite consistent lobbying against them. Matters are made worse by the fact that, unlike Americans, Australians are not protected by 'fair use' provisions." Odd that 'harmonizing' is always in one direction - for some reason, no one ever wants to decrease IP regulation to harmonize with some other country.

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Just consider it payback... by Rude+Turnip · 2004-08-03 03:25 · Score: 5, Funny

For plaguing us with not one, or two, but *three* Crocodile Dundee movies!

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Well... by siskbc · 2004-08-03 03:42 · Score: 4, Funny

Anyone know of a large island that is well connected to the Internet? ...offhand I'd say Australia. ;)

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