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Open source activists target software patents
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| Open-source champions are pushing to eliminate software patents from New
| Zealand through a Patents Bill now at the select committee stage in
| Parliament.
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| Such patents have been accepted by default for many years, but this is
| damaging to the software industry, which subsists to a great extent on
| adapting and including the ideas of previous inventors, says New Zealand Open
| Source Society president Don Christie.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/devt/84239C76EEE24D1BCC2575DC006BFFC1
Imminent threat of software patents in New Zealand
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| The director of the End Software Patents campaign Ciaran O'Riordan writes to
| warn of an imminent threat of software patents in New Zealand...
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http://coffee.geek.nz/node/23026
Software patents – unwelcome and unwanted
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| Software patents are not currently available in New Zealand, although several
| companies have tried to get “by the back door”, i.e. by tying the software
| idea they want to patent to some piece of hardware.
|
| A software patent is a state-enforced monopoly on a idea. They exist in the
| US and some other countries, but not in many places including New Zealand. We
| don’t need or want them here. If you want some reasons, here are five good
| ones:
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http://it.gen.nz/2009/06/19/software-patents-unwelcome-and-unwanted/
Recent:
New Zealand Denies It's Scrapping Copyright Laws
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| Despite widespread reports last week that New Zealand was going to scrap its
| copyright laws, and start from scratch, Tom Rix writes in to point out that
| New Zealand officials are now denying this report and saying they're still
| working on a new version of the copyright amendment that was a source of
| tremendous controversy recently.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090504/0440064740.shtml
Entire Copyright Act to be scrapped
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| The National government will freeze any further changes to the Copyright Act
| with an eye to throwing the whole thing out and rewriting it from scratch.
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| Over the last two months the National government has progressively scrapped
| Labour’s ‘band-aid’ adjustments to the Copyright Act 1994.
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http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/entire-copyright-act-be-scrapped-101820
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