[Year 12 IPM] Recommend multimedia software

[Damien A-B]

There was a nice summary/commentary in the Sydney Morning Herald blogs
http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives/004567.html
Cheers

Damien Atkinson-Buck

IT Department

Keilor Downs College



-----Original Message-----
From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
Behalf Of Robert Minato
Sent: Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:23 AM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] Recommend multimedia software

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.

Anyone get all the changes?

Robert Minato


On 18/5/06 10:26 AM, "Mark Kelly" <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> Copyright law (including the Digital Agenda Act) basically says that
> you can't do anything with other people's copyrighted intellectual
property.
> If it seems reasonable, logical or fun, it's probably illegal.
>
> But seriously, as I read it, you can't communicate, adapt or convert
> copyrighted material without permission if it's more than a tiny
> amount of the original.
>
> Alex Hopkins wrote:
>> Graham Travers wrote about using Audacity to add sound to Flash files.
>> I was interested to hear that, as it came on the same day I'd been
>> having a conversation with one of my younger students about doing
>> that very thing.  I had told him I wasn't sure about all the
>> copyright issues relating to using music files (despite being an IT
>> teacher.  My ignorance must be attributed to my not being an IPM
>> teacher despite subscribing to the IPM list).  What are we allowed to do
in this regard?
>> 
>> -Alex Hopkins
>> 
>

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