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Three strikes law reintroduced in New Zealand
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| The New Zealand government has
| reintroduced its controversial "three-
| strikes" Internet law, Bill 92A.
| Previously defeated after widespread
| outcry, the new 92A was introduced minutes
| before Parliament recessed for the
| holidays, and makes no substantial
| improvements over the initial proposal.
| Under the revised proposal, if anyone in
| your house is accused of three acts of
| infringement (without any proof of
| wrongdoing), your entire household loses
| stands to lose Internet access for six
| months, and/or pays a NZ$15,000 fine (the
| previous version of the bill would have
| taken away your family's internet for
| life). The major change in the bill is the
| opportunity for a counter-notice, if you
| believe the accusation is false.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/16/three-strikes-law-re.html
Leaked secret EU-Canada copyright agreement - EU screws Canada
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| Leaks have emerged from another secret
| copyright treaty, this one between the EU
| and Canada. The EU is really screwing
| Canada with this one, demanding longer
| copyright terms, more liability for ISPs
| (which means that it gets harder and more
| expensive to host anything from a message
| board to a video), laws against breaking
| copyright protection (even for a legal
| purpose, like getting your own files
| back), and a royalty on the sale of used
| copyrighted goods (so you'd have to track
| down and pay the rightsholder when you
| resold a painting or other copyrighted
| work).
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/16/leaked-secret-eu-can.html
CD seller pleads guilty to breaking copyright law
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| The owner of a local record store said he
| had no choice but to plead guilty Tuesday
| to a charge of offering for sale 100 CDs
| that were illegal under Canadian copyright
| law.
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http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2009/12/15/12167366.html
Fees for playing music in charity shops 'will be excessive', Association of Charity Shops warns
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| The Government's plan to make charities
| pay royalties to play music will apply to
| each charity shop individually and could
| cost charities that run shops a total of
| more than Â500,000 a year, according to
| the Association of Charity Shops.
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http://thirdsector.co.uk/news/Article/968885/Fees-playing-music-charity-shops-will-excessive-Association-Charity-Shops-warns/
Payment pending; Canadian recording industry set for six billion penalties?
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| A report published last week in the
| Toronto Star by Professor Michael Geist of
| Canada's University of Ottawa claims a
| copyright case under the Class Proceedings
| Act of 1992 may see the country's largest
| players in the music industry facing
| upwards of C$6 billion in penalties.
|
| The case is being led by the family and
| estate of the late jazz musician Chet
| Baker; moving to take legal action against
| four major labels in the country, and
| their parent companies. The dispute
| centres around unpaid royalties and
| licensing fees for use of Baker's music,
| and hundreds of thousands of other works.
| The suit was initially filed in August
| last year, but amended and reissued on
| October 6, two months later. At that point
| both the Canadian Musical Reproduction
| Rights Agency (CMRRA) and Society for
| Reproduction Rights of Authors (SODRAC)
| were also named defendants.
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http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Payment_pending;_Canadian_recording_industry_set_for_six_billion_penalties%3F
Obama Sides With Blind in Copyright-Treaty Debate
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| The Obama administration announced Tuesday
| it supports loosening international
| copyright protections to enable cross-
| border distribution of special-format
| reading materials for the blind, a move
| that puts it at odds with nearly all of
| U.S. industry.
|
| The government announced its support for
| the underlying principle of the WIPO
| Treaty for Sharing Accessible Formats of
| Copyrighted Works for Persons Who are
| Blind or Have other Reading Disabilities.
| The announcement was made in Geneva (.pdf)
| before a subcommittee of the the World
| Intellectual Property Organization, which
| has about 180 members.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/obama-blind-treaty/
Recent:
Openness? Transparency? Not When Biden Gets To Hang With
Entertainment Industry Lobbyists: Press Kicked Out
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| Then we heard that Attorney General Eric
| Holder was reinvigorating the Justice
| Department's "task force" on copyright. Why?
| There's still no indication of any actual
| harm (both the movie and music industries
| are growing). Then, Commerce Secretary Locke
| noted that anti-camcording efforts are an
| important part of the anti-piracy effort.
| Funny timing, given the recent fiasco over a
| young woman arrested for incidental
| capturing of snippets of New Moon.
|
| So it started out just great. And then?
| Well, then the press got kicked out.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091215/1307497368.shtml
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