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<P><FONT size=2>There was a nice summary/commentary in the Sydney Morning Herald
blogs<BR><A
href="http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives/004567.html">http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives/004567.html</A><BR>Cheers<BR><BR>Damien
Atkinson-Buck<BR><BR>IT Department<BR><BR>Keilor Downs
College<BR><BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From:
ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au [<A
href="mailto:ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au">mailto:ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au</A>]
On Behalf Of Robert Minato<BR>Sent: Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:23 AM<BR>To: Year
12 Information Technology Processing and Management Teachers'Mailing
List<BR>Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] Recommend multimedia software<BR><BR>There
was an announcement in last week's media of changes to now allow copying of
digital data, eg music. Perhaps it's now more legal than it used to
be.<BR><BR>Anyone get all the changes?<BR><BR>Robert Minato<BR><BR><BR>On
18/5/06 10:26 AM, "Mark Kelly" <kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>
wrote:<BR><BR>> Copyright law (including the Digital Agenda Act) basically
says that<BR>> you can't do anything with other people's copyrighted
intellectual property.<BR>> If it seems reasonable, logical or fun, it's
probably illegal.<BR>><BR>> But seriously, as I read it, you can't
communicate, adapt or convert<BR>> copyrighted material without permission if
it's more than a tiny<BR>> amount of the original.<BR>><BR>> Alex
Hopkins wrote:<BR>>> Graham Travers wrote about using Audacity to add
sound to Flash files.<BR>>> I was interested to hear that, as it came on
the same day I'd been<BR>>> having a conversation with one of my younger
students about doing<BR>>> that very thing. I had told him I wasn't
sure about all the<BR>>> copyright issues relating to using music files
(despite being an IT<BR>>> teacher. My ignorance must be attributed
to my not being an IPM<BR>>> teacher despite subscribing to the IPM
list). What are we allowed to do in this
regard?<BR>>> <BR>>> -Alex
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