[LINK] Australia: US Copyright Colony or Just a Good Friend?

[Marghanita da Cruz]

A piece of related Rhetoric: 'MELBOURNE NOTES.', Cairns Post 13 July 1929:
>> There has been considerable ill feeling in the public over the attitude
>> taken up by the Western Electric Company of U.S.A. in relation to the use
>> of an Australian talkie machine which was giving excellent results. The
>> idea of dictating to Australia what she should or should not do, under pain
>> of American displeasure and the consequent boycott by the Americans of
>> those talking-picture theatres which dared to use the Raycophone in
>> defiance of the ukase of the U.S.A., just about on Prussianed Prussia when
>> she thought she had the world in her grip, and it is time Australia, like
>> Canada, showed the Amricans that she is still an integral part of the
>> United Kingdom of Britain and not subject to the Stars and Stipes....
<http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40690800>

Which casts a different light on this recent news item:
> The GE Global Innovation Barometer ranked Australia's status as an innovation leader 16th out of 30 countries. Only 2 per cent of 2800 senior executives surveyed worldwide mentioned Australia as an innovation champion.
<http://www.smh.com.au/business/australia-lagging-in-innovation-20120118-1q6i5.html> 


More about Raycophone at
<http://ramin.com.au/annandale/story4-1.shtml#raycophone>

Marghanita
Richard Chirgwin wrote:
> On 22/01/12 9:04 AM, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> https://torrentfreak.com/australia-us-copyright-colony-or-just-a-good-friend-120121/
<snip>
>> The Canberra Wikileaks cables revealed the US Embassy sanctioned a 
>> conspiracy by Hollywood studios to target Australian communications 
>> company iiNet through the local court-system ...
> AFACT / the MPAA didn't need US embassy sanction to act. I don't dispute 
> the cables, or that the MPAA informed the Embassy of its intentions and 
> actions; but to imply that some sort of sign-off was necessary is just 
> childish.
> 
>> Had [Howes and Arbib] been caught spilling secrets to any other 
>> national government, with the possible exception of Great Britain, 
>> they would have seen their reputations destroyed at best. At worst, 
>> been put on trial for treason.
> While their status as contacts for the US Embassy is known, nobody has 
> ever established that they "spilled secrets". It's worth keeping in mind 
> that Howes' / Arbibs' status, while not know to the public, may not have 
> been a secret in Canberra.
> 
> And so on.
> 
> RC
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