I wrote a submission to the Commerce Select Committee on the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill. The PDF is available for a slightly better formatted reading experience
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That BoingBoingThing, Part deux
10-May-10Rob Beschiza, Managing Editor of BoingBoing posted a couple of comments on my last post. Rather than filling up the comments queue, I thought I’d answer them here.
That BoingBoing Thing
09-May-10I got banned from BoingBoing recently.
This, in itself, is not huge news and I’m not weeping in my tea over it, but the incident is worth examiniation, I think, as a part of the wider “knowledge economy” and the implications of that.
Charge of the IP Brigade
11-Mar-09Astute 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 [...]
RESULT!
23-Feb-09Well, sort of. Introduction of Section 92A has been delayed until 27 March, to allow the negotiating parties to sort the Code of Practice out. 3News has it here: Government delays introduction of controversial ‘S92A’ The government has called for a delay in the implementation of Section 92A, the controversial Copyright Amendment Act due to [...]
Chris 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 [...]