[Year 12 IPM] music copyright

[Donna Benjamin]

New Copyright Legislation is currently before Parliament.
http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/copyright06/index.htm

Browsing through the current submissions to the legal and constitutional
committee is an interesting exercise that shows the conflicting
interests at work in copyright legislation.
http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/copyright06/submissions/sublist.htm

Note there are submissions from Google, and the Copyright Advisory Group
to the Schools Resourcing Taskforce of the MCEETYA, ARIA, and the
Musicians Union of Australia.

Interestingly - a couple of film and video clubs have highlighted the
issue raised below - hobbiest film makers would like to be able to
include audio tracks from CDs they own, but there is currently no way
for them to do so, and so they submit they would like to be able to do
this.

Copying a CD in Australia is an act of Copyright Infringement. 
But it is not currently a criminal act. 

Once the legislation is passed, copyright infringements will be deemed
criminal, and for the first time, and as the first place in the world we
will have enforcement provisions that carry on the spot fines of $1000
per infringement.

However the new legislation allows some level of format shifting
exceptions which will legitimise copying a CD for use on an iPod for
private and domestic use. There is some concern that this will not
expand to cover student use at school, as that is neither private nor
domestic.

cheers
Donna

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 11:45 +1100, Andrew Grimshaw wrote:
> It is currently not legal to copy a commercial CD in Australia or to
> rip music off that CD for any reason. 
>  
> I have heard rumours of new legislation that will allow people to rip
> CDs for personal use, but I havent seen anything concrete.
>  
> see this link for more info:
>  
> http://www.copyright.org.au/information/specialinterest/music.htm
>  
> -andrew grimshaw
> colac college
>         ----- Original Message ----- 
>         From: Kerrie A Hammond 
>         To: ipm at edulists.com.au 
>         Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:26 AM
>         Subject: [Year 12 IPM] music copyright 
>         
>         
>         Hello all
>          
>         I have had a student approach me about converting a file from
>         a music cd(which he has purchased legitamitely) to a mp3 so
>         that he can use the music on a photostory project. The network
>         manager at my school tells me that this is illegal. Can anyone
>         throw any light on this issue?
>          
>         Thank you 
>         Kerrie Hammond
>         Trinity College Colac
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