Email forwarding law exempts personal messages, atrtorney-general says

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Source: SMH|Published: Monday March 5, 11:18 AM

Federal Attorney-General Daryl Williams has moved to quell reports
that forwarding emails will be banned under a new federal law.

But Mr WILLIAMS has described the as alarmist a Sydney newspaper
report that forwarding personal emails could attract penalties of up
to $60,000.

He said the new Copyright Amendment Act, which came into effect today,
will probably not apply to personal emails.

Mr Williams said a court would have to find that the contents of the
email were an original literary work.

Instead, Mr Williams said the law was designed to apply the same
amount of copyright protection to electronic media as it did to hard
copy.

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