(Hat-tip to harrismint for this one) On Torrentfreak there is a report of an EU vote (481 in favour, 25 against and 21 abstentions) to accept a report about fundamental freedoms on the Internet. For the third time in a year the European Parliament has spoken out against tougher anti-piracy legislation that would allow alleged [...]
There is a video going around on the Intarwebz. I am not going to link directly to it but you can find it in the blog I link to in this post. It’s a report from Russia Today about ACTA. It has a clip of Richard Stallman sounding off, and a few others, and intimates [...]
One of the fraught issues, when looking at censorship, is child abuse images (CAI), also known as “child pornography” (note that I disdain the use of “kiddie porn” as it diminishes the importance of the issue). Anyone with children feels this one in the gut, that it could be their child being abused but for [...]
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/section-92a-be-scrapped-89121 Prime Minister John Key has announced that the government will throw out the controversial Section 92A of the Copyright Amendment (New Technologies) Act and start again. Justice minister Simon Power will now meet with officials and rewrite the section of the Act from the ground up. No timeframe has been set for whatever clause [...]
I’ve called out Campbell Smith on his creative use of English to make black appear white. Now its APRA’s turn, and specifically Arthur Baysting. This will probably earn me wrath from some sectors of the music community, to whom Baysting has been a battler of the local industry for years, but his latest effort is [...]
ACTA stands for “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” and after a year of negotiations (following a year of “pre-negotiations”), that’s all we really know for certain. Which is just a bit insane for countries that are supposed to be representative democracies. Trade agreements are often negotiated under cover of secrecy, so that industry lobbyists can’t focus on [...]
Over on PublicAddress, there’s a long running debate on copyright (actually, crossing over multiple threads and other discussions). It’s got a little heated at times but at the moment, it’s not too bad. Last night, one of the participants, Rob Stowell asked me a question that I had to think about, and this morning I [...]
Effectively, it’s dead as a means of managing the Act. The TCF’s rules are pretty clear:
WOW! (hat tip to Paul Matthews (NZCS)) The code will not solve copyright issues, says TelstraClear By Ulrika Hedquist Auckland | Wednesday, 11 March, 2009 in Computerworld TelstraClear has pulled the rug from under efforts to implement New Zealand’s controversial new copyright law. The telco has told the Telecommunications Carriers’ Forum (TCF) and a working [...]
Astute readers of the net will have noticed that Korea has a proposal for a three strikes or, should we say “graduated response” piece of legislation. France is also going through the process of such legislation in spite of the fact that the European Parliament has declared it not suitable to Europe. In Ireland, the [...]