[Discussioni] (da /.) [SL esci con le mani in alto! Sei circondato!] Australia to Get Software Patents and Anti-Circumvention Laws

[Andrea Trentini]

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| Australia to Get Software Patents and Anti-Circumvention Laws      |
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|   posted by michael on Tuesday August 03, @11:20 (The Courts)      |
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Marlor writes "Australia's main opposition party have [0]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 [1]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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     http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/08/03/1412211

Links:
     0. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,10331442%255E462,00.html
     1. http://www.linux.org.au/fta/

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