S92A, and other thoughts on the revised Copyright Act

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:35:53 +1200

There is quite a furore (e.g. #blackout) at the moment about the eminent arrival of the updated Copyright Act in NZ, pretty much all surrounding section 92A. 92A doesn’t appear in the official online copies (either HTML or PDF) - I don’t know if that is because it only takes effect from the end of the month, or because someone left it out. The Amendment does have the wording:

92A Internet service provider must have policy for terminating accounts of repeat infringers “(1) An Internet service provider must adopt and reasonably implement a policy that provides for termination, in appropriate circumstances, of the account with that Internet service provider of a repeat infringer. “(2) In subsection (1), repeat infringer means a person who repeatedly infringes the copyright in a work by using 1 or more of the Internet services of the Internet service provider to do a restricted act without the consent of the copyright owner.

Blackout on Tony Andrew Meyer

S92A, and other thoughts on the revised Copyright Act