[wellylug] Section92 amendment

[Jethro Carr]

On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 12:48 +1300, Tim McKenzie wrote:
> 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.

There is a note on the website about this in the left side-bar.

"Please Note: Our use of "Section 92" refers specifically to Section 92a
and Section 92c, not Section 92b or 92d, etc. This is done for brevity."

But like you say, it may lead to confusion and claims of misinformation.


Your statement about the status of proposal vs passed is a good point -
what is the correct term for a law which has been passed but not yet
implemented?


> 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.

heh, I didn't get the count down timer until I enabled javascript, but
it appears to be correct to me - the countdown will end on 28th of Jan.

Viewing with Firefox 3 (Fedora 10).


-- 
Jethro Carr
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog
www.amberdms.com
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