Australian koalas
Sydney Long
1928
etching, printed in brown ink from one plate
Australian koalas
Sydney Long
1928
etching, printed in brown ink from one plate
isay:
Something to remember today.
Today is the first anniversay of the Black Saturday fires, when fires swept through many areas of Victoria resulting in the loss of almost 180 lives.
Friends of mine lost their home that day. They were lucky to escape with their lives.
Today they are waiting for the birth of their child.
Life goes on.
via www.abc.net.au
Photo by clusterpod: A Rock Parrot, Neophema petrophila, is startled to flight. Cape Arid national park, Western Australia.
clusterpod: Albany, Western Australia. Home
Colin Hay.
Men at Work frontman slams court ruling - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
(via indefensible)
This story makes me mad. And now I’ll listen to Down Under all day without once thinking of the Kookaburra song, because I never associated one with the other before.
(via inthefade)
The IOC in Canada doesn’t like our Boxing Kangaroo flag
IT’S a symbol of Australia’s fighting spirit. Now the Boxing Kangaroo is at the centre of an international incident, with the International Olympic Committee ordering it taken down from the Winter Games athletes’ village in Vancouver.
It can be revealed that IOC officials ordered the green and gold flag be removed just 24 hours after it was draped over a balcony - because it was deemed to be “too commercial”.
But the Aussies are defying the IOC order and are determined to keep the flag flying. “Someone from the IOC is objecting because it’s our team mascot,” an Australian source in the village said.
“They’ve said that it’s too commercial because it’s a registered trademark. It’s a harmless thing that’s a bit of fun (and the Aussies) have refused to take it down.”
vruz:
—via Groklaw
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- The result of this proceeding will disappoint the applicants. The evidence establishes that copyright infringement of the applicants’ films is occurring on a large scale, and I infer that such infringements are occurring worldwide. However, such fact does not necessitate or compel, and can never necessitate or compel, a finding of authorisation, merely because it is felt that ‘something must be done’ to stop the infringements. An ISP such as iiNet provides a legitimate communication facility which is neither intended nor designed to infringe copyright. It is only by means of the application of the BitTorrent system that copyright infringements are enabled, although it must be recognised that the BitTorrent system can be used for legitimate purposes as well. iiNet is not responsible if an iiNet user chooses to make use of that system to bring about copyright infringement.
- The law recognises no positive obligation on any person to protect the copyright of another. The law only recognises a prohibition on the doing of copyright acts without the licence of the copyright owner or exclusive licensee, or the authorisation of those acts. In the circumstances outlined above and discussed in greater detail in my judgment, it is impossible to conclude that iiNet has authorised copyright infringement.
- In summary, in this proceeding, the key question is: Did iiNet authorise copyright infringement? The Court answers such question in the negative for three reasons: first because the copyright infringements occurred directly as a result of the use of the BitTorrent system, not the use of the internet, and the respondent did not create and does not control the BitTorrent system; second because the respondent did not have a relevant power to prevent those infringements occurring; and third because the respondent did not sanction, approve or countenance copyright infringement.
vruz: this ruling is significative, because it puts the burden of defending copyrights on the corporations who can’t use the power of the state to do their job for them. at least in Australia. it’s obviously not written in the ruling, but the little studio who can’t afford litigation have probably been affected too, and they have never asked the state to ‘do something’, they’ve just found ways to become smarter and profitable. haven’t you seen corporations using their power to use the state as their private police before ? haven’t you heard about the ‘something must be done’ doctrine before? typically neoconservative/fascistic/corporatist ‘argument’ to prevent the world from changing, or mitigating their own failure.
Had this song in my head all morning, so I thought I’d do the decent thing and share it with you. Is it now embedded in your head? Good.
via www.avkomp.com
Baby Kookaburra
Reasons not to take up fishing in the Northern Territory…
A 3m long crocodile might decide it rather likes what you caught for tea.