[Year 12 IPM] Recommend multimedia software

[Robert Minato]

There was an announcement in last week's media of changes to now allow
copying of digital data, eg music. Perhaps it's now more legal than it used
to be. 

Anyone get all the changes?

Robert Minato


On 18/5/06 10:26 AM, "Mark Kelly" <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> Copyright law (including the Digital Agenda Act) basically says that you
> can't do anything with other people's copyrighted intellectual property.
> If it seems reasonable, logical or fun, it's probably illegal.
> 
> But seriously, as I read it, you can't communicate, adapt or convert
> copyrighted material without permission if it's more than a tiny amount
> of the original.
> 
> Alex Hopkins wrote:
>> Graham Travers wrote about using Audacity to add sound to Flash files.
>> I was interested to hear that, as it came on the same day I'd been
>> having a conversation with one of my younger students about doing that
>> very thing.  I had told him I wasn't sure about all the copyright issues
>> relating to using music files (despite being an IT teacher.  My
>> ignorance must be attributed to my not being an IPM teacher despite
>> subscribing to the IPM list).  What are we allowed to do in this regard?
>>  
>> -Alex Hopkins
>>  
>