26
Feb
2010
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Jason Rudkin-Binks
Kirk Boladeras
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Intellectual Property
New Legislation
The issue of how New Zealand will deal with unauthorized sharing of copyright material via the internet has taken another interesting turn. Current enforcement measures under the Copyright Act 1994 are considered ineffective. Section 92A of the Act was intended to provide a way to address this problem by forcing ISPs to have a policy providing for account termination, but was met with a lot of public concern. Readers may recall that at the time of our last article of 15 July 2009 Government were considering amending the section. On Tuesday, Minister of Commerce Simon Power introduced the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Bill (the Bill) to Parliament which if passed will repeal s92A in favour of a new set of enforcement measures.
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22
Sep
2009
- Authors
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Jason Rudkin-Binks
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Intellectual Property
New Legislation
Further to our previous article of 16 April 2009, the Select Committee has reported back with its views on the Bill which it recommends passing with a number of suggested amendments. We set out the more significant of these amendments below.
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15
Jul
2009
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16
Apr
2009
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Mark Gavin
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Intellectual Property
New Legislation
Readers may recall that at the time of our last article of 27 November 2008, progress of the Bill was uncertain due to the General Election and change of Government. Now that Parliament is sitting again progress of the Bill has resumed.
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27
Nov
2008
- Authors
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Mark Gavin
Kevin Pearson
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Intellectual Property
New Legislation
The Trade Marks (International Treaties and Enforcement) Amendment Bill introduces, among other things, prosecution powers for Customs and the Ministry of Economic Development to enforce the criminal offence provisions relating to counterfeit goods and pirated works under the Trade Marks Act and the Copyright Act.
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