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Further Update: Dr Newman has responded, and the Bird has flown the coop- er, I mean, been deleted. Game over, unless Mr Bird helps himself to some more of my intellectual property.
Craig Y
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Update: To his credit, Mr Farrar took prompt action and removed the offending section in question. Dr Newman has yet to respond to my email...
Craig Young
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Speaking of which, guess whose copyright status has been infringed by the raving right male backlash wingnut/'phobe Chuck Bird?
To cite an article I did about Bruce Logan and his fall from the Maxim Institute five years ago:
"According to John Burrows and Ursula Cheer, Section 16 of the Copyright Act 1994 (New Zealand) means that the original creators and/or current license holders of particular works have sole right to copy works, issue copies to the public, or broadcast and adapt their original work. It cannot be copied, published or broadcast without their authorisation. Since 1892, Commonwealth law has held that this applies to newspaper articles. It is held in New Zealand law that this includes lifting parts of others work and incorporating them into work that is allegedly one's own, especially if the original work is the product of diligent research and hard labour. If copies are distributed, then that's even worse, according to Section 16 (1)(b) of the Copyright Act 1994.
What damages might ensue? If someone is found to have breached copyright, monetary penalties may be equivalent to the sum that the plaintiff might have charged if the defendant had sought permission as required by law. Exemplary damages may apply if the defendant profited from a deliberate and calculated act of copyright violation. As well as New Zealand's own copyright legislation, copyright is protected through our membership of two international copyright conventions, the Berne Convention (1886, revised 1979) and Universal Copyright Convention (1952; New Zealand ascension, 1964). "
Unfortunately, I've just found out Bird has done exactly the above. See:
www.nzcpr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1032 - ... Civic Responsibility, Gay Men and the Blood Donor Ban Posted by: Craig Young.
http://gaynz.com/blog/redqueen/archives/932http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/10/general_debate_29_october_2010.html
I know it's tangential to the gaming debate, although given that intellectual property (mine) is involved, perhaps not all that much. I don't particularly feel much like backing the Pirate Party at the moment, though...
Grrrr!
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Yes, but in the case of the Christian Right, the recession is having a decided effect. Family First and Right to Life New Zealand are the only ones showing any semblance of activity. SPCS does still exist but it's slumped in a corner, trying to smuggle copies of Bunyan's "Pilgrims Progress" into prisons at present.
Craig Y
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IA! IA!
PH’NGLUI M’GLUNAFPH MAD MOO CENTRE FOR POLITICAL 'RESEARCH WAGH NAGL F’TAGHN!
THE STARS ARE NIGH TO COMING INTO THEIR RIGHT ALIGN, LO!
THE GREAT OLD BORE SHALL ARISE FROM BEING DEAD-BUT-DREAMING! (IE: LIVING IN WHANGAREI)
WOE UNTO YE WHO UNBELIEVE!
THE THING THAT SHOULD NOT BE, SHE RISES!
IA! MOORIEL NEWMAN F’TAGHN!Craig Y
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All right, yes, there was the CHP, Maxim Institute and Right to Life NZ afterward, but RTLNZ is the only one left at the moment.
Craig Y
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I would like to point out that Christchurch's ZAP period and general rightwing fruitery-and-nuttery was largely restricted to the eighties. In the late eighties, there was a Great Permian Extinction of sorts after 1987. Lots of Christian Right and raving right outfits went out of commission when the Lange administration won its second term. ZAP seems to have dekitsched to Auckland.
I popped into the Western Destiny Bookshop to read the odd Robert Heinlein novel back in the eighties, before I became more notorious in my own right. Have to say I was somewhat bemused by the propaganda lying around there. It certainly wasn't all libertarian. Some of it was from the US John Birch Society and even the Australian League of Rights. Which is odd, because the ALOR* is anti-monetarist as much as it's neofascist. Leaving me to conclude that the raving right is prehensile when it comes to the question of economic policies.
*The NZLOR is dead.
Craig Y
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IA! IA!
PH'NGLUI M'GLUNAFPH DON BRASH OREWA ROTARY CLUB WAGH NAGL F'TAGHN!
THE STARS ARE NIGH TO COMING INTO THEIR RIGHT ALIGN, LO!
THE GREAT OLD ONE SHALL ARISE FROM BEING DEAD-BUT-DREAMING!
WOE UNTO YE WHO UNBELIEVE!
THE THING THAT SHOULD NOT BE, HE RISES!
IA! DON BRASH F'TAGHN!Craig Y (hee hee)
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One probable side-effect of the fellow traveller effect would be that Newman and Brash might find that the Tea Pot Party fills up with weirdos like Trevor Loudon, the Citizens Initiated Referenda drones, assorted godbots and any remaining conspiracy theorists in squawkbackland. Entryism, anyone?
Craig Y
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Good heavens, Russell. You and Deborah Coddington appear to be on the same page, judging from today's Herald! And there are enough raving right fruitcakes in the twilight zone to make a Mad Moo/ I'm A Tea Pot Party a very interesting proposition indeed. However, what if it ends up resurrecting New Zombie First? Sock con twilight voters and activists tend to be highly prehensile when it comes to economic policy, which Brash and Newman don't seem to realise.
I would dearly love to publically strangle Chris Trotter so the post-paleolithic left could be rid of him too, for that matter.
Craig Y
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Er, namesake? Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh would probably make friends quickly with the post-communist nomenklatura and advertise them as the offspring of a laudable transition to neoliberal orthodoxy. Large amounts of dosh good, public sector bad?
Craig Y