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Greetings,
Important and urgent, it applies
NOW.
Digital content will be protected under Australian law for the first time from Sunday the 4th of March 2001 as changes to the Copyright Act take effect. This like a lot of law may be used to stifle free speech, or by a vindictive person. The Australian Federal Attorney General announced that, as of
4th March
2001, people who re-transmit material sent to them without the permission the author (a waiver of copyright), may be subject to imprisonment for a maximum of 5 (five) years or fines of $60,000 (sixty thousand dollars). This has always been the case on but it now clearly applies to
the internet and e-mail.
So please don't panic. Please do not abandon
free speech and the best method of communication yet
invented.
When you receive items via e-mail or from a web site be sure that copyright is waived on any material you may copy and /or forward on, or use in some way. This has always been a requirement under copyright law. But now it clearly applies to internet and e-mail activities. Just do as you have been doing but do not steal other peoples' material and allow it to be read as your material. If it is free published public information then providing that you give credit to the author no problem arrises. All the material I send out along with all the material
on website www.ja.olm.net/succeed www.killgst.com or www.alt3.net is covered for free distribution,
that is the copyright is waived providing no changes are made and that credit to
the source is clearly shown. In other words the forwarding on of an e-mail
as received should comply with the new copyright I will be checking
this out with the Attorney General.
In any case, everybody and anybody has my express permission
to freely copy any and all material emanating from me or any of the web
sites listed above provided that the material is not changed and credit to the
source is shown.
With permission from Peter H Davies, Philip L
Madsen Nanango. Qld. I borrow from them the following and say on my
behalf, I am most willing to receive both solicited and unsolicited
e-mails, electronic transmissions, Australia Post mails, Facsimile transfers and
telephone conversations, at whatever the time of day, or the month of the
year, or the day of the week, this includes long-distance shouting! If we
don't then what value is our so-called "free" speech.
While we are on the subject, an e-mail address is no different
to a letterbox at your front gate. It is a means by which the world is
invited to communicate with you. People who rave on about
unsolicited mail are in fact working against the principles of free speech and
free communication, in other words they are their own worst enemy, and they are
our enemy. After all it can all be dumped just as the mail in your letter
box at the front gate can be. The above is not legal advise
as one needs a licence to give legal advise.
All Copyright is waived provided source is acknowledged and no
changes are made.
Regards, Joe Bryant. > > |
