[Year 12 IPM] music copyright

[Bill Kerr]

"As an example," said Mr Coroneos, "a family who holds a birthday picnic in
a place of public entertainment (for example, the grounds of a zoo) and
sings 'Happy Birthday' in a manner that can be heard by others, risks an
infringement notice carrying a fine of up to $1320. If they make a video
recording of the event, they risk a further fine for the possession of a
device for the purpose of making an infringing copy of a song. And if they
go home and upload the clip to the internet where it can be accessed by
others, they risk a further fine of up to $1320 for illegal distribution.
All in all, possible fines of up to $3960 for this series of acts – and the
new offences do not require knowledge or improper intent. Just the doing of
the acts is enough to ground a legal liability under the new 'strict
liability' offences."
http://www.iia.net.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=517&Itemid=32

Peter Coroneos of the internet industry association

It looks like the new australian version of copyright law is going through
parliament rapidly, without significant modification despite the various
insightful submissions by google, Linux society, the IIA, the Queensland UT
Copyright reform group and many others
submissions here:
http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/copyright06/submissions/sublist.htm

It has now passed through the House of Reps and is due to be voted on in the
Senate in two weeks.

the new australian copyright law is significantly worse than the US version
(which is not good) and so there is no requirement for such a bad law
arising from Australia being a signatory to the Australian-US Free Trade
Act.

I downloaded the 'risk analysis for teenagers' (pdf) from the iia (internet
industry association) site and it does confirm that teenagers will soon face
hefty legal penalties, fines of $6600 is typical, for their current everyday
behaviour - backing up or downloading music, recording music on their mobile
phones and then sharing with friends, burning music on a CD and giving it to
a friend, incorporating popular music into a video and uploading to You
Tube, recording spontaneous song as video on a mobile phone and posting to
MySpace

download this pdf and others from here:
http://www.iia.net.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=519&Itemid=32

Welcome to the new world of Australian e-criminals, or is it i-criminals?

There is also an informative podcast interview by Brian Fitzgerald of Peter
Coroneos available here:
http://www.ip.qut.edu.au/materials/20061122-BrianFitzgerald_PeterCoroneos-64.mp3

-- 
Bill Kerr
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/
http://www.users.on.net/~billkerr/
skype: billkerr2006
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