On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:36:41AM +1000, John Wiltshire wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 15:41:08 +1000, Conrad Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
[snip - Conrad's comment on the act]
> The piece I found interesting (and more vague than the rest) was:
>
[snip - John's comment on the act]
> I think it is fairly certain CSS will fall squarely under definition (a)
> even though it is really a distribution control mechanism and not a
> copyright protection mechanism. Of course, designing a mechanism to get
> around the region coding probably falls easily under the exclusion listed in
> 116A above because if you buy the work from the USA then you have the right
> to watch it (as far as I can tell).
>
> It all gets very hard and unfortunately the movie industry has more money
> for lawyers than the rest of us.
This seems an oppurtune time for me to bound in and mention a `Linux Task
Force'.
Conrad and I envisage this as a group which would do submissions at Govt
meetings, convince organisation (like Telstra, banks, the ATO, etc.) that
Linux is worth supporting.
We want to try and make it organised and easy to assimilate everyone
( but without the cool implants :-/ ) so if you are interested drop
us a line.
Thanks,
Anand
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