The inclusion of the Intellectual Property Chapter recognises the importance of a strong intellectual property regime to economic growth through trade and investment. Australians will benefit through closer harmonisation of our already strong intellectual property regime with that of the largest intellectual property market in the world.
Closer alignment in intellectual property laws and practices will provide Australian exporters with a more familiar and certain legal environment for the export of value-added goods to the US. Likewise, the ability of Australian innovators to attract investment from the US will be enhanced through greater familiarity and confidence of those investors with our legal system.
Key Points in the Intellectual Property Chapter include:
Stronger protection for copyright owners, including
Agreement to implement the WIPO Internet Treaties by entry into force of the Free Trade Agreement: these being world intellectual property standards on treatment of digital copyright material
An expeditious process that allows for copyright owners to engage with Internet Service Providers and subscribers to deal with allegedly infringing copyright material on the Internet.
Tighter controls on circumventing technological protection of copyright material together with a mechanism for examining and as necessary introducing public interest exceptions in relation to technological protection measures, along with a transition period to provide the opportunity for public submissions in this area, as well as other measures in relation to circumvention tools
Agreement on standards of copyright protection
An increased term of protection for copyright material
increased criminal and civil protection against the unlawful decoding of encrypted program carrying satellite TV signals - which will assist the Pay TV industry enforce its rights
agreed criminal standards for copyright infringement and on remedies and penalties
Fuck.
All I can say is I hope this section doesnt get though the radification process.
"Okay, I'll have the truth with a side order of clarity." ~ Dr. Daniel Jackson.
"Reality has a well-known liberal bias." ~ Stephen Colbert
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I may just be a dumb ignorant Aussie, but what's the problem? You make it sound like copyright is a bad thing. I'm obviously missing something here, can you elaborate? Does this mean something like the RIAA (or whatever they call themselves; "CD Fascists" might be applicable) will set up shop here and fuck people up the bum?
Stofsk wrote:...Does this mean something like the RIAA (or whatever they call themselves; "CD Fascists" might be applicable) will set up shop here and fuck people up the bum?
Stofsk wrote:...Does this mean something like the RIAA (or whatever they call themselves; "CD Fascists" might be applicable) will set up shop here and fuck people up the bum?
yes, and yes.
So the RIAA may extend their tentacle around the world.
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Stofsk wrote:...Does this mean something like the RIAA (or whatever they call themselves; "CD Fascists" might be applicable) will set up shop here and fuck people up the bum?
yes, and yes.
Oh fuck.
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
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- George Carlin
Stofsk wrote:I may just be a dumb ignorant Aussie, but what's the problem? You make it sound like copyright is a bad thing.
Copyright isnt the problem. Its extreme copyright enforment which levates copyright violation to a criminal offense with very high punishments.
I'm obviously missing something here, can you elaborate? Does this mean something like the RIAA (or whatever they call themselves; "CD Fascists" might be applicable) will set up shop here and fuck people up the bum?
Yes & Yes.
"Okay, I'll have the truth with a side order of clarity." ~ Dr. Daniel Jackson.
"Reality has a well-known liberal bias." ~ Stephen Colbert
"One Drive, One Partition, the One True Path" ~ ars technica forums - warrens - on hhd partitioning schemes.
The DMCA is so unbelievably draconian that it criminalizes the act of even discussing methods of copyright infringement. Seriously, I'm not kidding. One US professor was actually forced to cancel a public lecture on encryption techniques because the MPAA threatened to have him charged with a DMCA violation if he went ahead with it.
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"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
