Posts by Sacha
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That episode of The Muppet Show I kept (Elton John singing 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' with the Electric Mayhem) is cause for prosecution?
Possibly on other grounds.. :)
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When perfectly reasonable objections are raised you get the "why do hate puppies, flowers and laughing babies?" line
Boy does Emma have just the thread for you..
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Which would probably work perfectly well for Mills and Boon from what were said on t'other thread..
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Bingo - humility and a reasonable argument in a copyright thread. I hoped it were possible.
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It's either that or talk about copywrong.
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Knowledge Bro, the village's camp librarian? :)
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And where are the similar calls for business investors to forego hefty dividend payouts, and senior managers to show pay restraint?
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Chortle.
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Hilary, no time now but I'll be talking soon about approaches that go beyond identity politics and human rights. Thanks for that eugenics reference.
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play out in the next few weeks when this law is active but with no code of practice
Unless I've read it wrong, this law does not say a code of practice is compulsory - it just happens to be the response of one group of affected stakeholders to meeting their obligations. Don for one has already mentioned his company having put effort into setting up their owen response. Multiply that across all the businesses and organisations who count as "ISPs" under this crap law and you have a lot of resource being wasted at a crucial time.
To see what is likely to happen just look at other jurisdictions that have tried something similar - although I am not aware of any from what I have read who have gone so far as to mandate disconnection as the sole penalty, and even the DMCA includes more due process.
I do not think it is likely to be APRA or even RIANZ who would lodge early claims after manual efforts, but more the automated trawling of US-based rights holders and those like the Scientologists whose motivation is easy access to censorship. They'll want to get in early in case the law is repealed, much like the flood of gay marriages when any state in the US legalises them.
Saying that this is bad law is not the same as saying copyright is wrong. It is notable that it has taken the concerted and principled efforts of the Creative Freedom Foundation and others to apply enough pressure to get intransigent rights holder representatives to even consider constructive solutions like a dedicated mediator. Dinosaur patch protection.
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