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 [...]
Last year, when I first heard about ACTA, I submitted an OIA request to the Competition, Trade and Investment Branch of the MED for any information about ACTA in order to make a submission. I recorded the results, and my progress on a wiki as well as my final submission. I was extremely disappointed as [...]
Those crazy Holloway kids are up in arms about S92a, and you don’t mess with artists in arms! They’ve started a new foundation, the Creative Freedom Foundation, and I’m delighted to support it.
Br3nda Wallace has noticed something strange. A press release from Judith Tizard on 16 October barely registered before it vanished. I didn’t see it come through on my feed from the Beehive site, nor on the newzealand.govt.nz feed. And it seems that it hasn’t been taken down, but permissions have been changed so that it [...]
I 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 [...]
There’s now a Facebook group for supporters of change to section 92a – if you’re part of the insidious New Social Order (and, for my sins, I am), go there, join up and tell all your friends. Earlier this year Canadian Prof. Michael Geist organised a similar group against the C-61 copyright bill and forced [...]