Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

[Jane Hornibrook <janehornibrook AT gmail.com>]

NetHui is certainly a place for the CC community to raise these concerns and push for wider discussion if they wish, especially under the "Globalisation, the Internet and the Law" stream. http://nethui.org.nz/programme


Those who are interested in supporting activities which 
lobby against restricting the Internet, a very good place to start is with the Creative Freedom Foundation at 
http://creativefreedom.org.nz/ and TechLiberty http://techliberty.org.nz/

In terms of CCANZ, I'll be presenting a CC point of view at the Intellectual Property Law and Commercialisation conference in August https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ohhl4rw8mbn4 Similarly toned discussion could come from corners like Rick Shera on the Amendment Act, Susy Frankel on Free Trade Agreements, Richard Best on NZGOAL and Don Christie on OSS. We also have a video resource in the works for circulation this winter which will help with an educational push this year (this work is in direct coordination with industry partners taking an interest in the new legislation). 

What can we do together as a CC community? When our video is ready for launch it would be fabulous for list followers to circulate it far and wide. Supporting the NetHui event and raising your wider concerns and the attending the CC Meetup during NetHui (details coming soon) is key.

All the best
Jane

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  1. Fwd: Internet in Libraries face demise (Danyl Strype)


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From: Danyl Strype <strypey AT disintermedia.net.nz>
To: Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion <cc-nz AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 19:46:44 +1200
Subject: [Cc-nz] Fwd: Internet in Libraries face demise
Kia ora koutou

Anyone on the Open Source Society email list will already have seen
this article about the implications of the new copyright regime for
free public internet access, but I think it's worth discussing here.
Particularly because CC was created as an alternative to the scenario
where access to the internet is limited by the demand of the media
corporations to protect their oligopoly.

On the OSS list, I suggested that media businesses using the state to
prevent home copying and sharing of media is akin to market gardeners
using the state to prevent people from home gardening and sharing
seeds. I oppose both, this not only on the principle that businesses
shouldn't have this much power over members of the public, but because
they don't actually need it to turn a profit, as Red Hat, Canonical,
and other companies have demonstrated. There are qualities of
convenience, simplicity, consistency and reliability that some people
will pay for, even if they can grow veges, or download torrents, for
free.

It seems that CC ANZ as a publicly-funded, licence-maintaining
organisation is constrained from expressing political opinions on
these issues. The question is, how can we as a CC community push the
public debate beyond the "pirates vs artists" framing created by the
media corps, and put the CC model forward as part of a potential
solution that is fair and balanced, and works for creative
collaborators and media distributors, both professional and amateur?

With Lawrence Lessig in the country for the NetHui at the end of June,
it seems like a good time to whip up an intriguing public awareness
campaign.

Hei kóná
Dany

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Date: 18 May 2011 06:00
Subject: [NZOSS-Openchat] Internet in Libraries face demise
To: NZOSS Open Discussion List <openchat AT lists.nzoss.org.nz>


Library internet faces axe

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10726286

Internet at public libraries could be on the chopping block as a
result of new anti-piracy laws, says the library association. The
association, LIANZA, says libraries do not record the internet
activity on their computers so it is impossible to track down and stop
anyone downloading movies or music.
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--
Danyl Strype
Community Developer
Disintermedia.net.nz/strype

"Business would like to be the definition of what is thinkable and
what is reasonable, and what's desirable. And anyone who doesn't agree
they would of course say is radical."
http://www.pigdog.org/interviews/stallman/interview_with_stallman2.html

"Allowing the university to be turned into the tool of business is
allowing it to be corrupted."
http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/Stallman.xml

- Both quotes by Richard Stallman


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