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Creative Freedom Foundation
Arianna Huffington on Journalism 2009: Desperate times call for... desperate metaphors. http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
Arianna Huffington on Journalism 2009: Desperate times call for... Desperate metaphors — Creative Fr
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Arianna Huffington from HuffingtonPost writes , "So now sites that aggregate the news have become, in the words of Rupert Murdoch and his team, "parasites," "content kleptomaniacs," "vampires," "tech tapeworms in the intestines of the Internets," and, of course, thieves who "steal all our copyright....
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Documentary on Guilt Upon Accusation: how New Zealanders stopped an unfair copyright law... please help us spread the word about this short documentary - send to your friends and family! http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
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NZ Herald on TV3's Target: "[they] should have been more sceptical" http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
NZ Herald on TV3's Target: "[they] should have been more sceptical" — Creative Freedom Foundation (c
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John Drinnan at the NZ Herald reports on the controversial episode of Target that was little more than a press release for NZFACT and RIANZ. The NZ Herald say, "The overwrought delivery plus the fact that it was used as a direct plug by Rianz and NZFact suggests either copyright holders were 100 pe...
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ACTA: Kiwis should care as treaty is about much more than counterfeiting http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
ACTA: Kiwis should care as treaty is about much more than counterfeiting — Creative Freedom Foundati
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Jonathan Penney over at CW writes that "Counterfeiting, which invokes images of funny money, fake merchandise or esoteric international criminal enterprise, sounds more like a topic of discussion for the next law enforcement conference, rather than for around the water cooler at work. However, peop...
Creative Freedom Foundation Fantastic and Free vector graphics software called Inkscape released http://is.gd/531cW
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EU Rejects Guilt Upon Accusation (again) http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
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CW reports that the EU telecommunication laws have passed, saying "With regard to file sharing, those suspected of illegally sharing copyright-protected content over the internet will be assured the right of defence and the assumption of innocence rather than being summarily cut off from internet a...
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CFF speaks at National Digital Forum 2009 http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
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Tomorrow, on Tuesday the 24th CFF's Matthew Holloway will present and join a panel discussion on Fair Use rights with DigitalNZ 's Lewis Brown, Alexander Turnbull Library's Ronald Milne, and the Digital Publishing Forum's Martin Taylor. New Zealand has Fair Dealing, but not Fair Use which restrict...
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NZ Herald: "Brit internet users bashed" http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
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The NZ Herald reports on our friends on the other side of the world, saying "the UK's Digital Economy bill incorporates a 'three-strikes' rule that could see households disconnected from the internet because of copyright infringement accusations without any onus put on the accuser to prove the vali...
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UK plans 'Copyright Militias' of Movie/Music Companies Punishing Citizens Without Judicial Oversight, and more... http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
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Collateral Damage: Town Has Internet Terminated After Single Download http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
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The NZ Herald reports on a town that had its entire internet cut off, they "provided Wi-Fi for a number of years as a free municipal service but last week was forced to shut it down after a single copyright infringing download saw the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) threatening legal a...
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New Website Launched to Watch International Copyright Changes http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
New Website Launched to Watch International Copyright Changes — Creative Freedom Foundation (creativ
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A new public website called Copyright Watch has recently been launched by The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL.net), and other international copyright experts to collect and monitor copyright laws from all over the world. "Copyright laws are changing ...
Creative Freedom Foundation Public Address on ACTA: "How DARE they sell ordinary New Zealanders down the river?" http://is.gd/4TOek
Public Address on ACTA: "How DARE they sell ordinary New Zealanders down the river?" — Creative Free
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The population of countries negotiating ACTA is 1,178,504,491. The members of public with access to the text of ACTA: 42. Perhaps with this in mind PublicAddress.net features a well-timed editorial on ACTA today by Colin Jackson that's well worth reading, "There is now no cost to distributing infor...
Creative Freedom Foundation Welcome to the Ideas Economy: Free talk on Friday http://bit.ly/2iQbJp
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Massey University Wellington will host a free seminar from 6pm this coming Friday 13 November titled Welcome to the Ideas Economy . International guests Giep Hagoort (Netherlands) and Jan van Mol (Belgium) will give presentations exploring "how open source creativity is flipping the script on creati...
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Throng.co.nz: Target's one sided shame http://www.throng.co.nz/target/targets-o
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Target has had an interesting year when it comes to courting controversy. After a botch up with contaminated food samples, one Ponsonby cafe was put on the brink of bankruptcy. Now, last week's episode of Target about copyright infringement has the
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TV3's 'Target' Becomes Press Release for NZFACT and RIANZ http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html
TV3's 'Target' Becomes Press Release for NZFACT and RIANZ — Creative Freedom Foundation (creativefre
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Target's segment last week on illegal downloads, 'Shame On You', presented one side of an ongoing debate about copyright infringement online - that of NZFACT and RIANZ. For the past few years these groups have lobbied to be able to accuse New Zealanders and have them punished without a trial, and th...
