FC: Australia news roundup: IP, broadband, game ratings

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:46:30 +1100
From: Nathan Cochrane <ncochrane () theage fairfax com au>
Reply-To: ncochrane () theage fairfax com au
Organization: The Age newspaper
To: declan () well com

Hi Declan

Something to read when you have nothing better to do. Issues of Politech 
general interest from Australia.

Liberals eye bulk broadband savings
All Victorian schools, hospitals and public buildings will have access to a 
$30 million broadband network with speeds of at least two megabits per 
second by 2005 if the Liberal Opposition wins power in the Victorian 
election on Saturday, says shadow IT minister Victor Perton.
MORE:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/23/1037697888799.html


Call for adult approach to games ratings
A Western Australian academic has claimed that adults should be free to 
play violent and pornographic computer games because there was no evidence 
they were more harmful than other media, despite Federal Government claims 
to the contrary.
MORE:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/16/1037080963234.html


Who owns a fact? Great database debate begins in Australia
Seminars to be held in Melbourne and Sydney during the next week will look 
at the issue of who owns a fact. Access to plain facts is on the auction 
block as a result of recent decisions in Australia and overseas that seek 
to tie up databases under international copyright laws.
The European Union has passed strong laws protecting any database created 
through "industrious effort" or the "sweat of the brow", but North American 
courts have taken a contrary view and require a database to show creative 
effort before it can be protected.
MORE:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/25/1038173686219.html


Collusion claim between governments and media
Global media giants work with Western governments to discredit 
anti-corporate culture and online activism and crimp human rights, a US 
researcher claims.
MORE:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/10/26/1035504890565.html

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Nathan Cochrane
Deputy IT Editor
:Next:
The Age and Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.next.theage.com.au




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