Hi, On this note, there has been a continued movement against this law by the Creative Freedom Foundation:
(PRESS RELEASE, FRIDAY 20 MARCH: http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html?id=224) With only seven days until the Guilt Upon Accusation law, Section 92A of the Copyright Act, is due to come into effect the Creative Freedom Foundation has renewed calls for National to repeal S92A and replace it with a workable alternative. Intended to protect artists, the controversial law has been rejected by many of them with over 9,000 artists, including Yulia, Luke Buda (Phoenix Foundation), Luke Rowell (Disasteradio) Sarah Jane Parton, and Imon Star (Olmecha Supreme), calling for a sensible alternative. Gray Bartlett MBE has stated that "The sledgehammer approach across the board, will totally dampen artistic and musical talent, most especially new and young talent". (CFF launch the 'What About Us' video series against S92A, MON 16 MARCH: http://creativefreedom.org.nz/forum /topic.php?id=216) The Creative Freedom Foundation launch their interactive video series What About Us today. The series will feature YouTube video statements by New Zealand artists and others who are not represented in the private sector decision-making process that will determine whether the controversial Guilt Upon Accusation law Section 92A comes into effect. The videos are available to view on www.CreativeFreedom.org.nz alongside statements from other artists, business owners and educators. Instructions are also available for those who want to join in and contribute statements to the series via YouTube. (Newsletter this afternoon: http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html?id=227) We are now one week away from March 27th, the day when the Guilt Upon Accusation law Section 92A is due to come into effect. The CFF put out a press release today giving a quick history of how we got here, and in this newsletter we have information on what you can do today to help. On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Sean Cubitt <[email protected]> wrote: > No fun either side of the Tasman: here in the merry old land of Oz, the > senator for censorship, S Conroy, is proposing a blacklist to be applied by > ISPs. Most of the sites are by al accounts pretty repulsive (and I speak as > someone generally speaking in favour of censorship -- I just think we > should > do the censoring, not "them"). The domains are offputting in themselves. > The > problem is that when Wikileaks leaked the blacklist, they were added to it > (allegedly - Conroy is claiming in the Age newspaper that he's done no such > thing - which he wouldn't, because he doesn't author the list, ASCMA [Aus > Comms and media Authority] do. > > The story is at > > http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Australian_government_secret_ACMA_internet_cen > sorship_blacklist%2C_6_Aug_2008<http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Australian_government_secret_ACMA_internet_cen%0Asorship_blacklist%2C_6_Aug_2008> > > Between content censorship (technically difficult) and piracy policing > (clearly politically and legally very tricky at best), we may well end up > with the kinds of system we really don't need > > Is anyone on the list looking at IPv6: before he retired/passed away, jack > Valenti was leading the charge for the MPAA to incorporate DRM in the root > code . . . > > > sean > > > On 20/03/09 1:20 PM, "Luke Munn" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey ADAers, > > > > Hadn't seen this posted here so thought I'd share story from Ars > > Technica posted last week.... > > > > "Under government pressure, copyright holders and ISPs in New Zealand > > have been meeting for months to hash out a Code of Conduct for > > disconnecting repeat Internet "pirates." It's a process that requires > > the unanimous agreement of all parties, but ISP TelstraClear has now > > publicly refused to back the process, saying that disconnecting users > > based on content owner complaints was simply unfair." > > > > > http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/key-kiwi-isp-looking-to-block- > > nz-p2p-disconnection-law.ars > > > > Cheers, > > Luke > > _______________________________________________ > > Ada_list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/ > > Prof Sean Cubitt > [email protected] > Director > Media and Communications Program > Faculty of Arts > Room 127 John Medley East > The University of Melbourne > Parkville VIC 3010 > Australia > > Tel: + 61 3 8344 3667 > Fax:+ 61 3 8344 5494 > M: 0448 304 004 > Skype: seancubitt > http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/media-communications/ > http://www.digital-light.net.au/ > http://homepage.mac.com/waikatoscreen/ > http://seancubitt.blogspot.com/ > http://del.icio.us/seancubitt > > Editor-in-Chief Leonardo Book Series > http://leonardo.info > > _______________________________________________ > Ada_list mailing list > [email protected] > http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/ >
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