Written By: - Date published: 2:40 pm, February 19th, 2009 - 44 comments
Categories: activism -
Tags: copyright, creative freedom nz
A reader has sent in some pics from today’s protest at Parliament against the ‘guilt by accusation’ copyright law. Looks like quite a striking protest, and not a bad turnout for such short notice.
You can click on the thumbnails below for full size.
UPDATE: In the comments Trevor Mallard and Clare Curran report that a Labour bill to stop the provision coming into force has been blocked by the National Party. Audio
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Graeme,
Not confirmed. You can read the proposed bill above. It would not have stopped the provision coming into force.
It would have stopped the provision coming into force as written, i.e, without constraint by industry stakeholders, which buys time. But you’re right – it’s not an outright repeal of the provision, which is the ultimate goal.
The confirmation I intended was of the claim that Curran had tried to introduce the bill; not on the quality of that bill.
L
Ryan Kennedy suggests:
Wot, like the RIAA didn’t leap on basically harmless mp3 downloading kids?
*weeps a silent tear for Metallica’s depleted gazillions*
Winston Peters?
Isn’t it lovely how centrist cults of personality and populist morons can bring together the nuttiest of wingnuts and the pinkest of pinkos? 
man I laughed when I saw those photos
Plenty of room for you to write on my blog Rex
I like the cut of your gib.
Rex,
I always get the feeling I should download Metallica’s discography, just as a small personal protest. I’d rather keep my bandwidth for more important things though.
Labour takes the copyright issue very seriously and is listening and wanting to be constructive:
Clare Curren, whilst that is great news I think it would be more helpful if Labour also acknowledged that when in power they were not listening or taking at all seriously the views of people who had concerns about this Act. Indeed we were vilified and insulted.
Your proposed amendment does not go far enough. S92 in its entirety needs revisiting. The idea that the law can be made good through the simple expediency of a Ministerial approved CoP is a red herring that once again switches the onus onto ISPs to produce something that complies with bad law.
All the above being said, many thanks for your interest in this topic and also for using your PQs to raise the issue to a higher level.
Don, you might want to repost that comment over at Clare’s guest post here:
http://www.thestandard.org.nz/clare-curran-on-s92a/
Morer pics, + speech audio:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0902/S00338.htm