[wellylug] Section92 amendment

[Tim McKenzie]

I'm a bit ambivalent about the Creative Freedom website. On one hand, the word 
needs to get out, and I'm glad they're trying to do that. On the other hand, 
they haven't been especially careful about details. If their website gets 
attention in the mainstream media, they WILL be accused of being misinformed:

They talk about section 92, which is a perfectly benign section of the 
original Act; it just happened to be the last section before the new 
problematic sections 92A--92E were inserted.

They talk about the "proposed" section 92 of the "Copyright Amendment Act". 
The Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act is no longer merely 
"proposed"---it's passed through Parliament. Section 53 of that Act added 
sections 92A--92E to the existing Copyright Act, between the original sections 
92 and 93. They're not subsections of section 92---they're sections in their 
own right.

They appear to be counting down to a "vote" at 3am on the 1st of March 
(viewing the website in Firefox or Konqueror on Kubuntu Intrepid). As I 
understand it (and I may be wrong), 92A comes into force on the 28th of 
February without any further voting, so it's even more important that we get 
the attention of the politicians who can change this situation.

Tim
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On Tuesday 06 January 2009 23:15:42 Jethro Carr wrote:
> hi all,
>
> Many of you have probably read the post on slashdot about the proposed
> Section 92 amendment to NZ copyright law:
> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/06/0351202
>
>
> If not, have a read though, then visit the creativefreedom.org.nz
> website and sign the petition, write to your favourite MP, or just help
> spread awareness of this issue.
>
> http://creativefreedom.org.nz/whattodo.html#signup
>
>
> regards,
> jethro

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