Australia Outlaws E-Mail Forwarding: ‘Outrageously strict Internet copyright laws which have just gone into
effect throughout Australia make it illegal to forward an e-mail memo
without the author’s permission, and could result in fines of $60,000
or five years in the slam, according to a story by the Aussie Sunday
Telegraph.

“It’s quite possible that the forwarding of an e-mail could be a
technical infringement of copyright,” an unnamed legal advisor to Oz
Attorney General Daryl Williams told the paper.

“E-mailing is a ‘communication’ under the Digital Agenda Act, and
so is putting something up on a Web site,” the source added.

This could rank as the world’s most copyright-friendly and
common-sense-hostile piece of legislation yet devised.’ The Register