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Originally Posted by HarryT
No they won't. The Australian Parliament can make whatever laws it wants to, but it has no impact on the contract between an author and publisher in another country. No government can dictate what happens in another country, unless some kind of international treaty or law is being violated, which doesn't appear to be the case here.
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... but a gov't CAN dictate what is NOT allowed to happen in its OWN country. and that's mostly what this is about.
if the gov't has a law that says you can't murder someone, but you have a contract between you and your neighbour that allows you to murder someone, then do you actually have the OK to do as per the contract? i know, a bit extreme, but it gets to the point.
putting in the law may not have any direct effect on past contracts, but it would probably affect new ones and it might force old ones to be revised if there are no customers signing up to buy stuff under the old contract.