ACTA Submissions 2010
The Ministry of Economic Development recently asked for submissions on the topic of digital enforcement in the ACTA treaty. We submitted a submission, as did 33 other organisations and individuals. We...
View ArticleTrans-Pacific Partnership: An FTA with fangs
In the last few years, New Zealand law governing intellectual property has been in a state of flux driven by the content industry demanding changes to protect their business. No sooner has one set of...
View ArticleFAQ : Trans Pacific Partnership
New Zealand is one of the four original members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement. Other countries (Australia, the USA, Peru and Vietnam) are now interested in joining the...
View ArticleACTA: Improving but problems remain
The ACTA treaty negotiation process is still going strong. The participants apparently feel pressured to finalise the agreement before the end of the year and have agreed to an extra negotiating round...
View ArticleACTA: the ‘final’ version
The 11th round of the ACTA Treaty negotiations have finished and it seems that there won't be any more rounds. Exactly what this means when the treaty text hasn't been finalised is uncertain. The...
View ArticleSubmission: Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Act Regulations
Tech Liberty has made a submission to the Ministry of Economic Development on their discussion document for the regulations surrounding the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Act recently passed into...
View ArticleMinistry of Economic Development says “ISPs” not liable for copyright...
[This article has been corrected. Please see explanatory note at the end.] Liability under the new copyright law One of the issues that we and many others have with the new copyright law is that it...
View ArticleMED confirms talks about centralised copyright notice system
The Ministry of Economic Development has confirmed that it has been involved in talks about a centralised system for handling copyright infringement notices (see earlier article). These talks have...
View ArticleKiwicon – The government is your friend
The government is your friend and wants you to be happy. This is the transcript of a speech given by Thomas Beagle at Kiwicon in Wellington on November 6th, 2011. Hi everybody. I'm Thomas Beagle from...
View ArticleTPP Update
While ACTA gets all the attention in Europe, the governments involved in negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement are still charging ahead. There have been 10 major negotiating rounds...
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