An Australian music activist has posted what he claims to be a draft position paper from the country’s peak music industry body that rejects proposals to introduce a blank media levy paid to copyright owners as compensation for the copying of music for private and domestic purposes
Utah-based artist Tom Forsythe, who won a five-year legal battle with Mattel over his photographs of Barbie dolls sometimes naked and paired with kitchen appliances on Tuesday said the court decision cleared the way for other parodies of iconic American brands. The ruling late last week by a federal judge in Los Angeles was the second major blow in two years to a bid by toy maker Mattel to defend Barbie’s image from use by artists and singers
Professor Lessig will be flown in at the 11th-hour
to testify on the intellectual property provisions of Australia’s pending Free Trade Agreement. The IP section of the FTA is modeled after the DMCA — via Lessig News
Australia hosts more porn pages than any other country in the region despite strict laws designed to restrict adult content
It may soon be possible to carry around an AK-47 assault rifle and an iPod with you down the street — and be arrested for carrying the iPod. That’s according to critics of a Senate amendment to the copyright code proposed by Senator Orrin Hatch this week called the Induce Act
. He wants to make the intentional inducement of copyright infringement
an offence, and this will extend liability to any manufacturer of a device which plays infringed material, or a shop that sells such a device, they say — via BoingBoing
The freedom of individuals around the world to surf the net is under threat from the policies of democracies as well as authoritarian regimes and dictatorships, according to the Internet Under Surveillance report by media watchdog Reporters Without Borders. The authors distinguished between dictatorships like China that gag the internet
, and democracies, which they said threatened freedom of expression in the name of fighting pornography, racism or global terrorism — via GeneWeb.info
Police are re-examining more than 100 murders in England and Wales they suspect could be so-called honour killings. Many of the female victims were from South Asian communities. Detectives are not reopening the cases but hope to learn more about the scale and nature of the phenomenon. As well as South Asian communities, some of the victims came from Arabic or eastern European backgrounds. Motives for the murders often included relationships which the families felt brought them dishonour. Police say some of the murders were carried out by contract killers hired by the families. They also believe that so-called bounty hunters
were involved — people, including women, who make a business out of tracking down victims — via Die Puny Humans
Inghams has told McDonalds in New Zealand that the next shipments of soy to feed their chickens will not be GE, whereas Australian consumers still have no choice but to eat Inghams chickens fed GE soy
68-year-old grandmother, Louise Jones, pulled up to her house and saw a police car. She honked, and an officer got out of the vehicle. Jones said the officer went to a call at another home, then returned to her house to give her a ticket for honking. Police said Jones wouldn’t cooperate and hit the officer. That’s when the officer pulled his Taser gun and shocked her — via Die Puny Humans
Amnesty International charges of Iraqi prisoners being subject to cruel and inhumane treatment were notified to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet in June and July of 2003, Australian Defence Forces chief General Cosgrove told a Senate estimates committee
Music business analyst Phil Tripp is pushing for a change to the Copyright Act that would give consumers the legal chance to copy music for their personal use
The US Fish and Wildlife Service recently reported that a record 55 red wolf pups [BugMeNot] have been born in 11 litters in North Carolina this spring. More than 100 red wolves now roam 1.5 million acres in the northeastern part of the state. This year’s promising wolf census comes on the heels of a judge’s decision that temporarily halted the building of a landing field by the US Navy that Defenders and others charged would be harmful to wolves and migratory birds in the area
Maria Isabel had been raped, beaten, stabbed in the chest and tied up with barbed wire before a blow to the back of her head finally killed her. Such murders have become common in Guatemala, where there are now daily reports of killings but rarely news of any arrests. Such unchecked misogyny, with no clear motive, is reminiscent of the situation in Ciudad Juárez, the Mexican city just over the border from Texas where around 100 serial-type sexual murders over the last decade have become an international cause célèbre
The recording industry is testing technology that would prevent consumers from making copies of CD burns, a piracy defence that could put some significant new restrictions on legally purchased music
John Howard‘s blatant attempt to pander to the fundies by declaring that the Government will only recognise marriages between a man and woman his got the silly bastard in shit with a group he pretends doesn’t exist. A Perth person with no fixed gender says new legislation which would ban all but traditional marriages is unlawful and undemocratic. Alexander MacFarlane has both male and female physiology and says the legislation will prevent all intersex people from marrying. Dr MacFarlane has vowed to take the matter to the High Court
Howard Carmack, a US man who sent 850 million junk emails through accounts he opened with stolen identities has been sentenced to up to seven years in prison
A federal judge threw out the US government’s attempt to shut down Greenpeace. In the clearest indication that the case was harassment, the judge didn’t even need to hear the Greenpeace defence before he acquitted them of all charges and dismissed the jury. This is a great victory for freedom of speech, but the question remains: Why did the US spend all that time chasing us instead of tracking down the illegal mahogany they were protesting against?
John Howard has rejected a report that an Australian military officer stationed in Baghdad was aware of abuse allegations late last year, after viewing a Red Cross report. The lying piece of shit maintains he first become aware of the scale of the mistreatment last month and has told Parliament that no Australian soldiers were involved in the abuses
Same-sex marriages in Australia will be outlawed and gay couples blocked from adopting children from overseas under laws proposed by the conservative government on Thursday that echo similar moves made in the United States. But changes would also be made to allow same-sex couples to nominate their partners as beneficiaries for superannuation — tax-free pension death benefits. The Greens have told John Howard to get a fucking clue
There is pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills: S 89 and HR 163) which will time the program’s initiation so the draft can begin at early as Spring 2005 — just after the 2004 presidential election… $28 million has been added to the 2004 Selective Service System (SSS) budget to prepare for a military draft that could start as early as June 15, 2005. Selective Service must report to Bush on March 31, 2005 that the system, which has lain dormant for decades, is ready for activation… In December 2001, Canada and the U.S. signed a smart border declaration
, which could be used to keep would-be draft dodgers in… this plan, among other things, eliminates higher education as a shelter and includes women in the draft — via Die Puny Humans
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