[LINK] We?re all copyright criminals now

[Adam Todd]

At 03:58 PM 22/11/2006, Glen Turner wrote:
>Kim Holburn wrote:
>
>>>There's an exception in the Australian act for sculptures
>>>in a public place.  Interestingly, you can photograph them
>>>but you can't record them.
>>Huh?  What's the difference?
>
>I meant a audio recording.

Yeah if you record the audio of a sculpture Sony may well sue you for 
copyright over the 4 seconds of silence!  (Previously featured in Link!)

>It's because our Copyright Act works on fair dealing (a list
>of exceptions) rather than fair use (a statement of principles).

And all too often fair dealing and fair use are interchanged.