[wellylug] Section92 amendment

Mark Foster blakjak at blakjak.net
Wed Jan 7 13:49:32 NZDT 2009


On Wed, January 7, 2009 1:22 pm, Jethro Carr wrote:
> 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?
>

Folks
The answers are probably fairly close to home.
The drivers behind the site in question are locals:

http://lists.nzoss.org.nz/pipermail/openchat/2008-December/000316.html

I don't think there's any intent to misinform, but if they succeed in
drawing people's attention to the situation, then much the better.

I emailed my MP last night (and got an email back from him within 3
minutes confirming he'd look into it when he's back in Parliament! hows
that?) - noise is good, even if it just makes people sit up and take
notice of what's going on.

Mark.



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