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• MED withholds ACTA papers

  The Ministry of Economic Development has released just 13 out of 91 documents relating to its negotiation of a controversial international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) after an official information request.

• Free Software leader slams NZ copyright

  The leader of the Free Software movement, Richard Stallman, is calling New Zealand’s copyright laws unjust and plans to use an upcoming tour of the country to rouse opposition to them.

• Privacy advocates marshal to fight copyright regime

  Australian internet service providers and consumer groups are gearing up to fight the powerful US copyright lobby over a proposed new international trade agreement.

• Court beckons for ISPs to define new copyright law

  ISPs will have to push cases through the courts to define what new copyright laws mean in practice, says lawyer Michael Cavanaugh of patent law firm Baldwins.

• FryUp: Of import but not export

  — Of import but not export

• New Zealand ISPs forced to police internet piracy

  Internet service providers took a big step towards becoming internet police courtesy of a new copyright law passed in Parliament last week.

• Extradited Aussie pirate sentenced to 51 months

  The leader of one of the oldest and most widely recognised internet software piracy groups was sentenced to 51 months in prison on one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced last week.

• Copyright liability a free-trade ‘bargaining chip’?

  InternetNZ has accused the government of giving away a potential free-trade bargaining chip by agreeing too readily to the American view on how to deal with internet intellectual property violation.

• Avaya CEO on changes, competition and copyright

  Louis D’Ambrosio became top guy at Avaya last July, making him only the company’s second CEO since 2000, when it was spun off from Lucent’s legacy business telephony arm — a group which created the first cellphone and packet PBX. At the recent VoiceCon show, D’Ambrosio spoke about the changes and challenges facing the company.

• Google, YouTube hit with US$1B copyright suit

  Media company Viacom International is suing online video provider YouTube and its parent company, Google, for more than US$1 billion, saying the companies are infringing on Viacom's copyrights because almost 160,000 unauthorised video clips are available for viewing on YouTube.

• Turning librarians into copyright police not the greatest idea

  If a draft copyright law presently before Parliament is passed it will mean that anyone wanting to bypass a technological protection mechanism (TPM) to copy a digital work will either have to go to the copyright owner direct or through a library, college or university.

• TPMs the focus of Auckland workshop

  The possibility New Zealand could introduce harmful or unenforceable copyright laws emerged as the key concern at InternetNZ’s Auckland Copyright Workshop.

• Library’s web curator battles Aussie Pandas

  While embarking on a major project to digitise its collections, the National Library is also looking to the future with development of a system for curating web-pages.

• Copyright bill: clause for concern

  “There is a lot that is good” in the Copyright (New Technologies and Performers’ Rights) Amendment Bill, says InternetNZ president Colin Jackson.

• Sun and StorageTek sued for copyright infringement

  Sun Microsystems has found itself involved in another intellectual property lawsuit, this time with a Californian company that says Sun and its StorageTek unit have committed copyright infringement and fraud.