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Skeeve Stevens wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96);">For any
content that is ‘freely
available on the web’ – what is the legality of acquiring this
content and delivering it locally?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96);">For
example.. many TV stations
are uploading full episodes onto their websites after the show has
aired.</span></p>
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this is straight copyright. 'freely downloadable' does not mean 'free
of rights'.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96);">Also, does
anyone know at what
point music becomes legally free to use in Australia?... like books
after
50years after the authors death (in the US it is 20).</span></p>
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depends on the origin of the works. you've got your dates on, US is
most certainly not 20 years.<br>
take a read of
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act</a><br>
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Australia is more than 50 years. see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-United_States_Free_Trade_Agreement#Intellectual_property_rights">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-United_States_Free_Trade_Agreement#Intellectual_property_rights</a><br>
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cheers,<br>
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lincoln.<br>
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