*Ø* Blogmanac | EFA slams IP clauses in US-Australia trade deal
""Australians are likely to face legal action from multinational media companies according to from [sic] the intellectual property clauses of the recently announced US-Australia free trade agreement, Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) said today.
"In a statement, the group, a non-profit national organisation representing internet users concerned with online rights and freedoms, said it was dismayed over the IP clauses which represented a massive step backwards for Australian IP law.
"'The US has one of the worst systems of intellectual property laws in the world," EFA board member Dale Clapperton said. "Their Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has been widely condemned by civil liberties and users groups throughout the world, and now the Howard government has committed itself to implementing its worst, most insidious, provisions.'
"EFA said US copyright terms had been extended numerous times after pressure from lobbyists and now extended to 120 years from publication, a period which it said 'had no purpose but to protect the vested interests of large corporate copyright holders' ...
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""Australians are likely to face legal action from multinational media companies according to from [sic] the intellectual property clauses of the recently announced US-Australia free trade agreement, Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) said today.
"In a statement, the group, a non-profit national organisation representing internet users concerned with online rights and freedoms, said it was dismayed over the IP clauses which represented a massive step backwards for Australian IP law.
"'The US has one of the worst systems of intellectual property laws in the world," EFA board member Dale Clapperton said. "Their Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has been widely condemned by civil liberties and users groups throughout the world, and now the Howard government has committed itself to implementing its worst, most insidious, provisions.'
"EFA said US copyright terms had been extended numerous times after pressure from lobbyists and now extended to 120 years from publication, a period which it said 'had no purpose but to protect the vested interests of large corporate copyright holders' ...
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