[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Forwarding email without permission now illegal in AU

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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Date sent:      	Mon, 05 Mar 2001 11:50:18 -0500
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From:           	Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject:        	FC: Forwarding email without permission now illegal in Australia
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 17:49:00 +1100 (EST)
From: Thomas Brinsmead <thomasee@syseng.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Sharing e-mail banned by law
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>

Declan,

A legal opinion from down under, on copyright protection for composers
of email. Appearing in the Sunday Telegraph in Australia: its a
tabloid paper and not necessarily what one would call a high-brow
newspaper publication.

The individual who wrote this gave me permission to forward the email
on, but I neglected to obtain permission for forwardees to to the
same.

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Thomas Brinsmead,       0^0

Research Fellow,
Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering,
Australian National University.
Canberra 0200 ACT Australia.
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Email: thomas.brinsmead@syseng.anu.edu.au
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Subject: Sharing e-mail banned by law
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 13:34:45 +1100
From: David Austin <david@syseng.anu.edu.au>


For those who haven't seen this:

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,1768268%255E421,00.htm
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David Austin

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Robotic Systems Laboratory,                          Hiroshima '45
Department of Systems Engineering,                   Chernobyl '86
RSISE, Australian National University                Windows '98




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