FC: Australian government statement on email-forwarding flap

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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From: "Chalmers, Rachel" <Rachel.Chalmers () the451 com>
To: "'declan () well com'" <declan () well com>
Subject: RE: Forwarding email without permission now illegal in Australia
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:38:36 -0800

Declan,

The Australian Attorney-General has already responded to the 
email-forwarding beatup:

"Contrary to alarmist media reports, sharing e-mail is not banned by law. 
Amendments to the Copyright Act that came into effect today do not outlaw 
the practice of forwarding personal e-mails to other people. That would be 
ridiculous."

<http://www.law.gov.au/aghome/agnews/2001newsag/931_01.htm>http://www.law.gov.au/aghome/agnews/2001newsag/931_01.htm 


What he doesn't say is that the Digital Agenda Act contains the same 
prohibition on copy protection circumvention as the DMCA - and that 
Australians don't have a free speech defence.

Rachel Chalmers, the451




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