Our Federal Attorney-General rocks :D

[dug777]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20846707-5007146,00.html

I liked this bit particularly:

There are other elements to the Copyright bill, that are aimed at ensuring consumers are not treated like copyright pirates and copyright pirates are not treated like consumers. They include:

- Making it legal for people to record TV or radio programs in order to play them at a more convenient time.

- Legalising 'format shifting' of material such as music, newspapers, books - meaning people can put CD's they own onto their iPods or MP3 players;

- Giving schools, universities, libraries more flexibility to use copyright material for non-commercial purposes; and

- Helping people with disabilities access copyright material.

The new provisions in the Bill for consumers and for parody and satire will commence after Royal Assent in mid-December.

:beer:

 

[chrisms]

I was shocked at this until I noticed you were Australian.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: dug777
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20846707-5007146,00.html

I liked this bit particularly:

There are other elements to the Copyright bill, that are aimed at ensuring consumers are not treated like copyright pirates and copyright pirates are not treated like consumers. They include:

- Making it legal for people to record TV or radio programs in order to play them at a more convenient time.

This is legal in the US.

- Legalising 'format shifting' of material such as music, newspapers, books - meaning people can put CD's they own onto their iPods or MP3 players;

This is legal in the US unless you have to break copy protection to do it.

- Giving schools, universities, libraries more flexibility to use copyright material for non-commercial purposes; and

The US does this.

- Helping people with disabilities access copyright material.

Apparantly Americans aren't even willing to make money easier to use for handicapped people. :Q

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: dug777
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20846707-5007146,00.html

I liked this bit particularly:

There are other elements to the Copyright bill, that are aimed at ensuring consumers are not treated like copyright pirates and copyright pirates are not treated like consumers. They include:

- Making it legal for people to record TV or radio programs in order to play them at a more convenient time.

This is legal in the US.

- Legalising 'format shifting' of material such as music, newspapers, books - meaning people can put CD's they own onto their iPods or MP3 players;

This is legal in the US unless you have to break copy protection to do it.

- Giving schools, universities, libraries more flexibility to use copyright material for non-commercial purposes; and

The US does this.

- Helping people with disabilities access copyright material.

Apparantly Americans aren't even willing to make money easier to use for handicapped people. :Q

The US gives schools, universities, libraries more flexibility? How can you say that without knowing what we can and can't do right now?

The recording thing is just clearing up a gray area that exists currently as i understand it...

EDIT: i'm not going to play your little 'we're better than you' game tho, i was kinda pointing out that it is cool that he is actually on the ball with issues like this

 

[sswingle]

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- Legalising 'format shifting' of material such as music, newspapers, books - meaning people can put CD's they own onto their iPods or MP3 players;

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This is legal in the US unless you have to break copy protection to do it.
Q]

The RIAA wants to make that illegal.

 

[dug777]

Worth a bump?

 

[DrPizza]

Hmmm... that's odd. In a recent conversation with administrators at my school, I was told that it was illegal for us to copy our VHS tapes to a DVD format (simplifying playing them in our classrooms, since we all have computers networked to large screen televisions or DLP projectors.)

Are you *sure* it's legal to transfer from one medium to another? Or were the people I talked to in error??

 

[daniel1113]

Apparently, space shifting is only allowed for audio, not video. Read more.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Hmmm... that's odd. In a recent conversation with administrators at my school, I was told that it was illegal for us to copy our VHS tapes to a DVD format (simplifying playing them in our classrooms, since we all have computers networked to large screen televisions or DLP projectors.)

Are you *sure* it's legal to transfer from one medium to another? Or were the people I talked to in error??

Que?

I'm Australian, how the hell should know?

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Hmmm... that's odd. In a recent conversation with administrators at my school, I was told that it was illegal for us to copy our VHS tapes to a DVD format (simplifying playing them in our classrooms, since we all have computers networked to large screen televisions or DLP projectors.)

Are you *sure* it's legal to transfer from one medium to another? Or were the people I talked to in error??

Que?

I'm Australian, how the hell should know?

You don't know much, you can't even play cricket!