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The report of the House of Representatives Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Committee on technological protection measures exceptions was released
yesterday, 1 March 2006.
The report relates to Australia¹s obligations regarding technological
protection measures in the AustraliaUS Free Trade Agreement, and the
circumstances in which a person may be entitled to circumvent a
technological protection measure.
The report includes recommendations for exemption from circumvention
liability in a range of circumstances. In addition, it recommends that
technological measures intended to restrict the playing of DVDs and other
items to particular regions (region coding) be excluded from protection
under the Copyright Act.
Go to http://www.copyright.org.au/U26626 for a link to the report.
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There’s some good commentary on this over at Lawfont from Kim Weatherall.
Here and here.