Australia to Get Software Patents and Anti-Circumvention Laws

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.

Comments

Re:There is still some vague hope

[Loco3KGT]

Thanks buddy but President William Jefferson Clinton, a publicly admitted Democrat, let the DMCA go through.

Re:Economies

[urban_gorilla]

its rants like this that make me wish i had mod points. nice one :)