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FC: Forwarding email without permission now illegal in Australia
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 11:50:18 -0500
********** 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. ---------------..........Z 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 ---------------------------------------------------- ``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 ------------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------- 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 --- d.austin () computer org Robotic Systems Laboratory, Hiroshima '45 Department of Systems Engineering, Chernobyl '86 RSISE, Australian National University Windows '98 ------------- End Forwarded Message ------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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