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Posted by Steven Wu on Saturday, February 14 @ 14:22:19 EST Copyright
The recent US-Australia trade deal includes several copyright, patent, and trademark provisions. Among other things, it seems to import into Australia the DMCA as well as the CTEA's 20-year copyright extension (the subject of Eldred v. Ashcroft). Australian librarians are unhappy. And we're starting to see how America's economic power is allowing it (and its corporations) to export restrictive IP laws.
 
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Re: US-Australia Trade Deal on Copyright (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Saturday, February 14 @ 22:31:37 EST
(From the article at The Age.)
"It is bad for students. It is bad for researchers. It is bad for all information users."
Shock. It was designed to be good for copyright holders. Seems like you have to be a corporation to get a voice in public policy these days.
Dr Rimmer said two decades of culture, which would previously have been freely used, quoted and republished, would revert to corporate control.
Surely there's got to be some legal recourse against something being placed back under copyright after it's entered the public domain? So they extend copyright terms: I don't see that we have any recourse against it for works created after the time of enactment, but what about the retroactive change, particularly in those instances where the change involves items which had already entered the public domain? This is like making a deal with Darth Vader.
He said Australian intellectual property holders would be pleased by the change.
Well, duh. Nobody complains when they get something for nothing. It's just the rest of us who are getting screwed over.


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