--- Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:46:30 +1100 From: Nathan Cochrane <ncochraneat_private> Reply-To: ncochraneat_private Organization: The Age newspaper To: declanat_private Hi Declan Something to read when you have nothing better to do. Issues of Politech general interest from Australia. Liberals eye bulk broadband savings All Victorian schools, hospitals and public buildings will have access to a $30 million broadband network with speeds of at least two megabits per second by 2005 if the Liberal Opposition wins power in the Victorian election on Saturday, says shadow IT minister Victor Perton. MORE: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/23/1037697888799.html Call for adult approach to games ratings A Western Australian academic has claimed that adults should be free to play violent and pornographic computer games because there was no evidence they were more harmful than other media, despite Federal Government claims to the contrary. MORE: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/16/1037080963234.html Who owns a fact? Great database debate begins in Australia Seminars to be held in Melbourne and Sydney during the next week will look at the issue of who owns a fact. Access to plain facts is on the auction block as a result of recent decisions in Australia and overseas that seek to tie up databases under international copyright laws. The European Union has passed strong laws protecting any database created through "industrious effort" or the "sweat of the brow", but North American courts have taken a contrary view and require a database to show creative effort before it can be protected. MORE: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/25/1038173686219.html Collusion claim between governments and media Global media giants work with Western governments to discredit anti-corporate culture and online activism and crimp human rights, a US researcher claims. MORE: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/10/26/1035504890565.html -- Nathan Cochrane Deputy IT Editor :Next: The Age and Sydney Morning Herald http://www.next.theage.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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