_I_ know what copyright covers - but reading some of the weird cases in the
States about the RIAA for example, and knowing that the RIAA (and the MPAA)
is the source of much of what passes for "copyright" law these days - much as
the big computer companies in the States are the source of what pa
Thanks for that clarification.
It is great that ISPs and web-server providers have been spared
liability for caching or serving copyright material. It is bad that,
unlike Canada, this law enacts "notice and take-down" (rather than
"notice and notice", ie. we complain, you decide whether to tak
The Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act has many good points. For
example, ISPs do not breach copyright by holding a copy of a work,
either in a cache or elsewhere on the system, such as on a Web page that
they run for a user (the ISP was in breach before). The Act also allows
time-shifting,
On Wed, April 9, 2008 9:14 pm, Wesley Parish wrote:
> And what happens if I write a story where that happens, and decide that
> the
> government has infringed my copyright by enacting a fictitious happening
> in
> real life? Without receiving a license from the author to do that a la a
> movie ad
linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz writes:
> "As internetNZ points out: "We believe that if a consumer has
>legally purchased a licence to the rights to a copyrighted work,
>they should be able to store it any format they like
...
does this mean whole-disk backups and lab deployment images
And what happens if I write a story where that happens, and decide that the
government has infringed my copyright by enacting a fictitious happening in
real life? Without receiving a license from the author to do that a la a
movie adaption agreement?
You can't reason with some people, can you?
This is the consequence of signing up to "Free Trade" with the
Ultimately Satanic state.
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10502960
>
>"The Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Bill ... intr
