Showing posts with label new zealand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new zealand. Show all posts
24 July 2014

Won't Somebody Think Of The Cows? New Zealand On The Brink Of Sacrificing Its Digital Future In TPP Negotiations

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Even before Wikileaks released the full text of TPP's IP chapter, New Zealand's Creative Freedom Foundation had already been gi...
24 November 2013

New Encrypted Email Services Coming From Kim Dotcom's Mega And Newzbin

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A month ago, we wrote about Kim Dotcom's plans to form his own political party in New Zealand. But that's not the only way that...
23 November 2013

Does The 'Three Strikes' Approach Work, In Any Sense? Here's The Evidence

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Last week we reported on the suspension of Hadopi's one and only suspension, as France moved away from using Internet disconnectio...

Kim Dotcom Forming New Political Party In New Zealand

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Whatever your views about Kim Dotcom, you have to admire his dogged fight against extradition from New Zealand, not least because it has...
27 October 2013

Did New Zealand Spooks Tap Into PRISM To Spy On Dotcom?

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As Techdirt has reported, the attempts to extradite Kim Dotcom from New Zealand to the US have turned into one of the most catastrophical...

TPP Negotiations Deprive New Zealanders Of Promised Copyright Consultation -- For Secret Reasons

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One of the myths perpetuated by governments taking part in major international treaty negotiations like ACTA, TPP and TAFTA/TTIP is that ...
18 September 2013

Kiwis Want To Spy On All Communications, VPNs, And Be Able To Use Secret Evidence Against You

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Although New Zealand's decision not to allow patents for programs " as such " was welcome, other moves there have been more...

New Zealand To Ban Software Patents 'As Such'; Tries To Pin Down What On Earth That Means

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Few patent sagas have been as fraught as New Zealand's attempt to revise its laws to exclude software. Techdirt first wrote about t...
10 March 2013

Early Lessons From New Zealand's 'Three Strikes' Punishments

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New Zealand has the unhappy distinction of being in the vanguard of using the "three strikes" approach of punishment for people...
11 February 2013

NZ, Don't Make Our Mistake on Software Patents As Such

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A couple of months ago, an MEP asked the European Commission an interesting question : On Open Enterprise blog .
10 February 2013

Japan Wonders Whether It Is Worth Joining TPP Negotiations After All

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement began as a cosy treaty between just three nations: Chile, New Zealand and Singapore . But o...
11 November 2012

Scientist Refused Permission To Call Hominids 'Hobbits', Even Though Word First Used In Print In 1895 -- And Not By Tolkien

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Techdirt has written before about the aggressive enforcement habits of the Tolkien estate, once in connection with the name " Tolkien...
29 September 2012

Megaupload Farce Stirring Up Backlash Against Copyright Overreach

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Just when you think the Megaupload farce can't get any more ridiculous, it does. Following revelations that New Zealand's Govern...
29 July 2012

NZ Copyright Industry Claims New 'Three Strikes' Law Halved Movie Infringements After One Month: So What?

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The implicit justification for various new copyright enforcement laws, such as the "three strikes" approach, is that they will e...
18 April 2012

Is TPP To Blame For The Continuing Delay In Passing New Zealand's 2008 Bill That Excludes Software Patents?

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As Techdirt reported a couple of years ago, a hard-fought campaign in New Zealand to prevent software patents being granted there seemed...
01 November 2011

What Exactly Makes A Pop-Up Mall A Pop-Up Mall? On Second Thought, Who Cares?

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One of the pernicious effects of once-obscure legal issues surrounding copyright and patents seeping into everyday life is the belief tha...
31 August 2011

Politicians Start Getting Digital Copyright Right

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As readers of this blog probably recall, the passage of the Digital Economy Act was one of the most disgraceful episodes in the history of t...
03 May 2011

Why Did Wikileaks Fail New Zealand?

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As I noted elsewhere, we now know that the US played a major role in pushing for tougher copyright regimes in Canada, Spain and Sweden. It...
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14 March 2011

Why We Should Care about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

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When I first started writing about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in 2007, practically no one had heard of it. That wasn...
13 December 2010

Big Tobacco: Saving Lives is "Expropriation"

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Although I knew that there is yet another trade treaty being discussed between New Zealand, the US and others, I hadn't heard about thi...
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