FC: Forwarding email without permission now illegal in Australia

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 17:49:00 +1100 (EST)
From: Thomas Brinsmead <thomasee () syseng anu edu au>
Subject: Sharing e-mail banned by law
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>

Declan,

A legal opinion from down under, on copyright protection for composers of 
email.
Appearing in the Sunday Telegraph in Australia: its a tabloid paper and not
necessarily what one would call a high-brow newspaper publication.

The individual who wrote this gave me permission to forward the email on, 
but I
neglected to obtain permission for forwardees to to the same.

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Thomas Brinsmead,       0^0

Research Fellow,
Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering,
Australian National University.
Canberra 0200 ACT Australia.
Ph:    +61-2-6125-8674
Fax:   +61-2-6125-8660
Email: thomas.brinsmead () syseng anu edu au
WWW:   http://wwwsyseng.anu.edu.au/~thomasee/thomasee.html
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``If, therefore, anyone wishes to search out the truth of all things in
earnest, he ought not to select one special science, for all the
sciences are cojoined and interdependent''-
Descartes, Rules for the Direction of the Mind, 1629




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To: all () syseng anu edu au
Subject: Sharing e-mail banned by law
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 13:34:45 +1100
From: David Austin <david () syseng anu edu au>


For those who haven't seen this:

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,1768268%255E421,00.html




David Austin

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d.austin () computer org

Robotic Systems Laboratory,                          Hiroshima '45
Department of Systems Engineering,                   Chernobyl '86
RSISE, Australian National University                Windows '98




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