On Feb 21, 2012, at 10:16 PM, Andrew Collins wrote: > HI Ray , > I heard today an interesting law in Australia. Wish it was the same for TV > And movies > Once A book is released anywhere in the world And not in Australia > One day after Any one in Australia can grab it and publish it in Australia > For Free > Is that true > Regards > Andrew
No. That's inaccurate. It's an old open market law that dates back before my first book. What it says is that if the UK publisher doesn't get a book into Oz within 30 days (I believe it's thirty) then Australian book sellers can import the US edition--Oz becomes an "open market" rather than a British Export Market. This is all legacy stuff from back when the Commonwealth went though it's major changes, you got a new flag, etc. Australia is a signatory to the various copyright conventions so Australian publishers can't just pick up books and publish them because no one distributed them DownUnder. Best R.E.F. ---- www.crydee.com Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by stupidity.
