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From BB (or more specifically "Kate"):
The Australian Attorney-General's department is inviting
submissions from the public on copying of movies and images in
different formats for private use.
These were sections of the Copyright Amendment Act introduced in
December 2006 that made it legal for Aussies to do things they'd
been doing for decades, such as recording a tv broadcast to tape
or disc, but illegal to watch such recordings more than once!
The Minister is required by the Act to review these exceptions
after two years and is now inviting comment.
This is a good opportunity to argue for the exceptions to be
expanded (not contracted!) to come into line with general
consumer behaviour.
Submissions must be in by the end of February (the 29th).
http://www.ag.gov.au/www/agd/agd.nsf/Page/\
Copyright_IssuesandReviews_Copyingphotosandfilmsforprivateuse
^ Issues paper and instructions for making submissions
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/21/aussies-heres-your-c.html
^ Original BoingBoing post (as you can see from the date I've
been sitting on this for a while, hoping to do it myself)