Article – Connie Lawn Some of the closest friends and supporters of New Zealand came together for an elegant luncheon in the Council headquarters at Dacor Bacon House, a beautiful building one block from the White House. We heard an update from two visiting Members of Parliament. …
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Column – Gordon Campbell It isn’t often that we see how the United States feels when it sees itself on the receiving end of a secretive international treaty process – you know, one akin to the Trans Pacific Partnership process that alarms many New Zealanders.
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Article – BusinessDesk July 24 (BusinessDesk) – A Labour-led government would not allow the United States to dictate terms on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreements or allow the US to use the agreement as a pretext for containing “China’s economic advance.”
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Speech – New Zealand Labour Party I have been asked to talk about China-US relations, and what implications this has for us. The contest for power between two countries, the United States and China, dominates international relationships in the 21st century.
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Press Release – Green Party 24 July, 2012 John Key Needs To Get A Backbone John Key needs to put the health of New Zealanders ahead of the interests of tobacco giants. John Key yesterday said a proposal to require plain packaging of cigarettes and tobacco was not a “slam …
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Press Release – Internet NZ The ‘Fair Deal’ coalition is pleased to announce that LIANZA (the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa) has joined the group’s ranks.
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Article – Scoop News The New Zealand Herald reports that Internet law expert Judge David Harvey has stepped down from hearing the Megaupload extradition case:
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Press Release – Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind The Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind (RNZFB) supports the launch of the Fair Deal cause to highlight the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and its implications on copyright.
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Speech – New Zealand Labour Party About 7 or so years ago I was the head of the UN’s Humanitarian office in Jerusalem.
Column – Association of University Staff Negotiations begin at Otago Uni It has been a slow start to collective bargaining at New Zealand’s universities this year with only Victoria, Massey and, as of this morning, Otago beginning negotiations. The union bargaining team at Otago will focus …
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Article – Nethui Live Notes FTC Trifecta: the FTC’s complaints against Twitter, Facebook, and Google. And now they have added a complaint against MySpace. Will talk about how these recent cases are important milestones in the US emerging common law about privacy enforcement, …
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Article – Nethui Live Notes We don’t have to seek consensus, we don’t have to write the new © act, this is just about identifying issues that should be looked at in the review of the © Act so people at the appropriate time next year can take submissions and have that …
Nethui 2012: Copyright Plenary With David Farrar Read More »
