23 Oct, 2007: Copyright - Digital Technologies - New Zealand
By Nandor Tanczos MP, Green Party Spokesperson on Commerce. Second Reading Speech. The Greens alone opposed this bill at its first reading. We voted against it because, contrary to the ministry’s 2002 advice, it served to protect access control technology, which is technology that has been used to price discriminate and control geographical distribution of works, to the detriment of ...

7 Aug, 2007: Reverse engineering gets the nod in new New Zealand Copyright Bill draft, however consumers have reason to be concerned (ComputerWorld)
"Consumers still have reasons to be fearful of proposed new copyright legislation, but for inventors and adapters of technology, the outcome is looking brighter. Consumer champions have protested that Parliament’s Commerce Select Committee, while upholding format-shifting for copyright works in new legislation, has also allowed copyright-owners to contract out of the law. However, adaptors’ and inventors’ rights have ...

14 May, 2007: Copyright law reinforces monopoly, Open Source Society warns New Zealand MPs (Computerworld)
The New Zealand Open Source Society is opposing those parts of the Copyright Amendment Bill that would make it illegal to circumvent technological protection of copyright. The society argued, before a parliamentary committee, that such measures would reinforce Microsoft’s market power. Addressing Parliament’s Commerce Committee, the NZOSS gave the planned changes to the Copyright Act a big thumbs-down. ...

31 Dec, 2004: Archive of documents from 2004 and prior
Free Trade Implementation Bill, IP Chapter http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jsct/usafta/report/chapter16.pdf Trade bill in the Australian house, introduced at the request of the United States. Strongly opposed by education sector, librarians, civil libertarians, and economists. "Libraries Caught in Copyright Changes" The Age (AU) Transcript of Canberra Hearing in Australian Senate on trade bill aph.gov.au