It seems that the Australian Government have decided our copyright laws are up to date for the digital age.
An article in the age stated the new laws “allow users to make one “main copy” of a CD as well as “temporary copies”, but the temporary copies must be destroyed at the “first practicable time”.
To import music on a iPod, you need a copy on your computer, it is then downloaded onto the iPod. Therefore anyone using an iPod is breaking the new copyright laws.
These offences have a $65,000 fine or 5 years jail, even both. The government has stated that these laws are not targeted at individuals, but rather the market stall operators. There is yet to be any changes to the new law that states this.
Many large corpoartations have added their critisiums of the new laws. Apple Computers stating that “Many common everyday acts of copying to … devices, such as an iPod, computers and even to VCRs … would still constitute an infringement under the bill’s current form.”
Is this a step forward into the digital age and helping to fight against copyright infringements?
Related Articles:
The $65,000 question: do you own an iPod
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/the-65000-question-do-you-own-an-ipod/2006/11/20/1163871308087.html
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