NSW Mining Critical Review Site Censored : Melbourne Indymedia

From the site http://www.miningnsw.com.au, a critical review of the NSW Mineral Councils current propaganda compaign :

"You might not know this, but mining is having devastating impacts on communities and the environment. Most mining in NSW is for coal. This is fuelling global climate change, which is critically endangering life on our planet. The NSW Minerals Council is now running a spin campaign to fool you into thinking that we need the coal mining industry. We invite you to dig a little deeper and find out the real facts."

Unfortunately this website has been forced to be taken down by the Axxs.org Collective due to Freehills lawyers for NSW Minerals Council using this piece of legislation :

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_reg/cr1969242/s20j.html

which effectively Axxs.org Collective has to comply too, regardless of the legitimacy of the claim of copyright infringement.

The site was a fair use critical review parody site of the NSW Mining propaganda campaign, and brought you facts regarding what was wrong with it.

The statements by the solicitors for the NSW Minerals Council does not explicitly state what exactly is copyright :

"Content in which our client owns copyright may be viewed on it's website, http://www.nswmining.com.au. We ask that you compare our client's website to the offending websites referred to above. On comparison, you will see the copyright infringement issues that our client has with the abovementioned websites."

As the intended recipient of the email, we disclose this information, so that others can see how from our point of view, critical review is being attacked using this piece of legislation.

When asking what exactly was copyright on the phone by one of the collective members, so that we may take it down promptly, and fulfill our obligations, we were told, 'All of it', everything. It was pointed out the source code was totally different, and was told it was copyright to their client, even though elements of the pages, on the site itself, where pointed out as to who the images etc belonged too. This is a very interesting claim, that custom php code by one of our users, images by other parties, the colours, the lot, is the intellectual property of NSW Minerals Council. We have been forced to take the site down by this legislation, as the solicitors pointed out that according to it, we must act appropriately on reciept of such an email, or have failed to fulfill our legal responsibilities. Hence we have done so.

You do the math.