[FYI] Australia to license streaming content

[Kristian Köhntopp <kk@netuse.de>]

... weil es ja Rundfunk ist. Frage: Wie ist denn das dann mit
deutschen Anbietern, die aus Australien abgerufen werden?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/internet/2000/07/item20000711194139_1.htm

Streaming review
worries Internet
community 

Australian new media companies
are protesting against a Federal
Government review into Internet
streaming which they say could
turn Australia into an Internet island.

The Government is to commission an Australian
Broadcasting Authority (ABA) review into Internet
streaming, the process of putting audio and video on the
web.

The inquiry would consider whether Internet streaming
should come under the definition of broadcasting, which
could lead to broadcast licence payments.

Internet audio jockeys say that would risk substantial
investment for local companies, even spreading out and
hurting the bigger telecommunications groups.

The ABA review will be held some time between now and
January 2002.
...

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