Just spotted in my RSS feed from the Government portal – newzealand.govt.nz, in case you didn’t know – is a post from MED about the latest round of ACTA negotiations ACTA Negotiations: Report on Round Three, 8-9 October 2008, Tokyo Of course, it says bugger all of substance, as expected after the last round report, [...]
Category Archives: Knowledge Economy
MED discovers RSS – Film at eleven!
15-Oct-08Chris Hocquard doesn’t get it
14-Oct-08I just watched TV3′s Sunrise segment with Chris Hocquard, an entertainment lawyer, wobble on about section 92a. He’s a director of amplifier.co.nz (which I’m pleased to see he wasn’t plugging, so kudos for that) and chair of bFM, which gives him some skin in the music game, but I wasn’t too impressed with what he [...]
According to PM Helen Clark on TV3′s Sunrise (about 3m21 in) this morning, Judith Tizard is working on a new business model for online copyright. Yeah, right. Full marks to Ollie Driver for pointing out that the Act only requires allegations, not convictions, to trigger enforcement (and a hat tip to Nat Torkington for picking [...]
Where do they stand?
12-Oct-08On September 17, I emailed all the parties I could find from the Elections Website to ask what their policies were regarding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. I looked at their websites first – nothing at all [UPDATE: as xurizaemon points out in the comments, the Greens at least have a tech policy statement that covers [...]
Section 92a – Who’s watching your bits?
09-Oct-08Colin Jackson was incredulously eloquent this morning on RNZ, talking to Kathryn Ryan (speaking notes on his blog) about the farce that is section 92a of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment, which is a little like a foretaste of ACTA. Basically, section 92a says to ISPs, though shalt not allow thy users to download copyright [...]