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Men At Work's Colin Hay hits out over plagiarism ruling
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| Men at Work's Colin Hay has issued an angry
| statement calling the Down Under plagiarism
| case "opportunistic greed".
|
| Earlier this week, a federal court in
| Sydney ruled that Men at Work had
| plagiarised Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum
| Tree in its 1983 hit, Down Under.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8499973.stm
Studios crushed: ISP can't be forced to play copyright cop
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| In a definitive defeat for film studiosâand
| in a first case of its kind worldwideâ
| Australia's Federal Court has ruled that
| ISPs have no obligation to act on copyright
| infringement notices or to disconnect
| subscribers after receiving multiple
| letters. If copyright holders want justice
| for illegal file-sharing, they need to
| start by targeting the right people: those
| who committed the infringement.
|
| The ruling handed down today by Judge J.
| Cowdroy aims to be nothing less than
| magisterial: in 200 pages, it examines the
| issue from every possible angle because of
| the "obvious importance of these
| proceedings to the law of copyright both in
| this country and possibly overseas."
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/02/studios-crushed-isp-cant-be-forced-to-play-copyright-cop.ars
The ACTA Guide, Part One: The Talks To-Date
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| The 7th round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
| Agreement negotiations begins tomorrow in
| Guadalajara, Mexico. The negotiation round
| will be the longest to-date, with three and
| a half days planned to address civil
| enforcement, border measures, the Internet
| provisions, and (one hour for)
| transparency. Over the next five days, I
| plan to post a five-part ACTA Guide that
| will include sourcing for much of the
| discussion on ACTA, links to all the leaked
| documents, information on the transparency
| issue, and a look at who has been speaking
| out.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4725/125/
Recent:
Oz gov suggests world's worst copyright protection scheme
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| In their submission, Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) have expressed
| concern that "the proposed legislation provides a very broad exception to the
| prohibition on interception of network communications for the purposes of
| ensuring that a network is "appropriately used"".
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/14/australia_copyright_scheme/
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