On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:27:05 PM Alex Fraser wrote:
- Anti-piracy report Cited by government, and obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by the Pirate Party. It claims that the increase in internet traffic is exactly correlated with job loss (which sectors?)
"Content Industries" is the most specific it gets..
- TPP Among other things, the TPP demands a copyright term of 95 years after the date of publication. Some confusion here: currently, does the copyright term start at the death of the author?
Here's what the draft TPP IP section that was leaked says: 5. Each Party shall provide that, where the term of protection of a work (including a photographic work), performance, or phonogram is to be calculated: (a) on the basis of the life of a natural person, the term shall be not less than the life of the author and 70 years after the author’s death; and (b) on a basis other than the life of a natural person, the term shall be: (i) not less than 95 years from the end of the calendar year of the first authorized publication of the work, performance, or phonogram, or (ii) failing such authorized publication within 25 years from the creation of the work, performance, or phonogram, not less than 120 years from the end of the calendar year of the creation of the work, performance, or phonogram.
- Customer agreements We discussed what sorts of things should go in an agreement with a client to allow the developer to contribute code upstream in FOSS projects. Alex couldn't find any of these online. MFSIG could collaborate to create such an agreement, and pool our resources to have it looked at by a lawyer. Then we could post it on the Web for anyone to use.
It would be good to approach OSIA to see if any work has been done on this previously.
- Chris to contact Con Zymaris about Open Source Victoria (are they still active?)
Ben's pointed out that OSV has been absorbed into OSIA, so I suspect this is now irrelevant. cheers! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP