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Creative Freedom Foundation
ACTA: Kiwis should care as treaty is about much more than counterfeiting http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
ACTA: Kiwis should care as treaty is about much more than counterfeiting — Creative Freedom Foundati
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Jonathan Penney over at CW writes that "Counterfeiting, which invokes images of funny money, fake merchandise or esoteric international criminal enterprise, sounds more like a topic of discussion for the next law enforcement conference, rather than for around the water cooler at work. However, peop...
Creative Freedom Foundation Fantastic and Free vector graphics software called Inkscape released http://is.gd/531cW
Creative Freedom Foundation
EU Rejects Guilt Upon Accusation (again) http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
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CW reports that the EU telecommunication laws have passed, saying "With regard to file sharing, those suspected of illegally sharing copyright-protected content over the internet will be assured the right of defence and the assumption of innocence rather than being summarily cut off from internet a...
Creative Freedom Foundation
CFF speaks at National Digital Forum 2009 http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
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Tomorrow, on Tuesday the 24th CFF's Matthew Holloway will present and join a panel discussion on Fair Use rights with DigitalNZ 's Lewis Brown, Alexander Turnbull Library's Ronald Milne, and the Digital Publishing Forum's Martin Taylor. New Zealand has Fair Dealing, but not Fair Use which restrict...
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NZ Herald: "Brit internet users bashed" http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
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The NZ Herald reports on our friends on the other side of the world, saying "the UK's Digital Economy bill incorporates a 'three-strikes' rule that could see households disconnected from the internet because of copyright infringement accusations without any onus put on the accuser to prove the vali...
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UK plans 'Copyright Militias' of Movie/Music Companies Punishing Citizens Without Judicial Oversight, and more... http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
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Collateral Damage: Town Has Internet Terminated After Single Download http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
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The NZ Herald reports on a town that had its entire internet cut off, they "provided Wi-Fi for a number of years as a free municipal service but last week was forced to shut it down after a single copyright infringing download saw the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) threatening legal a...
Creative Freedom Foundation
New Website Launched to Watch International Copyright Changes http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
New Website Launched to Watch International Copyright Changes — Creative Freedom Foundation (creativ
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A new public website called Copyright Watch has recently been launched by The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL.net), and other international copyright experts to collect and monitor copyright laws from all over the world. "Copyright laws are changing ...
Creative Freedom Foundation Public Address on ACTA: "How DARE they sell ordinary New Zealanders down the river?" http://is.gd/4TOek
Public Address on ACTA: "How DARE they sell ordinary New Zealanders down the river?" — Creative Free
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The population of countries negotiating ACTA is 1,178,504,491. The members of public with access to the text of ACTA: 42. Perhaps with this in mind PublicAddress.net features a well-timed editorial on ACTA today by Colin Jackson that's well worth reading, "There is now no cost to distributing infor...
Creative Freedom Foundation Welcome to the Ideas Economy: Free talk on Friday http://bit.ly/2iQbJp
Welcome to the Ideas Economy: Free talk on Friday — Creative Freedom Foundation (creativefreedom.org
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Massey University Wellington will host a free seminar from 6pm this coming Friday 13 November titled Welcome to the Ideas Economy . International guests Giep Hagoort (Netherlands) and Jan van Mol (Belgium) will give presentations exploring "how open source creativity is flipping the script on creati...
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Throng.co.nz: Target's one sided shame http://www.throng.co.nz/target/targets-o
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Target has had an interesting year when it comes to courting controversy. After a botch up with contaminated food samples, one Ponsonby cafe was put on the brink of bankruptcy. Now, last week's episode of Target about copyright infringement has the
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TV3's 'Target' Becomes Press Release for NZFACT and RIANZ http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
TV3's 'Target' Becomes Press Release for NZFACT and RIANZ — Creative Freedom Foundation (creativefre
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Target's segment last week on illegal downloads, 'Shame On You', presented one side of an ongoing debate about copyright infringement online - that of NZFACT and RIANZ. For the past few years these groups have lobbied to be able to accuse New Zealanders and have them punished without a trial, and th...
Creative Freedom Foundation
EU Rejects 'Guilt Upon Accusation' (sort of) http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
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The New York Times reports that the European Union has rejected Guilt Upon Accusation laws (known as "Three Strikes") and guaranteed a "fair and impartial" procedure before any punishment such as internet termination. “This is a very fundamental step,” said Catherine Trautmann, a member of parliame...
Creative Freedom Foundation ACTA Treaty Draft Leaks, Calls For Guilt Upon Accusation And More http://j.mp/17eSbu
ACTA Treaty Draft Leaks, calls for Guilt Upon Accusation And More — Creative Freedom Foundation (cre
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BoingBoing reports on a leaked draft of the ACTA treaty. ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger [...] That ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringer...
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UK Parliamentary Enquiry into Copyright Infringement Online: 'Music Industry Failed To Adapt' http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
UK Parliamentary Enquiry into Copyright Infringement Online: 'Music Industry Failed To Adapt' — Crea
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A UK Parliamentary enquiry titled “Can we keep our hands off the net?” (PDF ) has come out strongly against internet termination, blaming the music and film industry (not artists) for failing to adapt to the online environment. They say "We conclude that much of the problem with illegal sharing of c...
