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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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<span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;
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alt="" height="36" width="73"></a>There's an
interesting tussle going on in New Zealand
concerning public access to the Internet in
libraries. Like a number of European countries,
New Zealand has been trying to implement a
"three-strikes" law that would require Internet
service providers (ISPs) to cut off the Internet
to subscribers who are caught three times
illegally downloading copyrighted materials. New
Zealand first attempted such a law in 2008, but
the legislation would have required ISPs to kick
people offline based only on accusations of
infringement, not convictions, and public outcry
then forced the government to rethink the law. Now
it's back, but the Library and Information
Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) is
warning that the law as now written may compel
libraries to disconnect their public Internet
access. If you're thinking none of this has any
relation to the U.S., the fourth link below brings
it back home.
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<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10726286">Library
internet faces axe</a> (New Zealand
Herald/Hamish Fletcher) "Parliament passed
changes to the Copyright Act last month allowing
copyright holders to issue warnings to those
believed to have illegally downloaded content. A
third suspected infringement allows the rights
owner to seek a court order to fine offenders
$15,000. Under the law, which takes effect in
September, libraries would end up paying the
fine because the account owner was responsible
for any illegal downloading."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.lianza.org.nz/sites/lianza.org.nz/files/lianza_submission_regulations_discussion_document.pdf">Submission
to the Ministry of Economic Development on
Copyright (Infringing File Sharing)
Regulations 2011</a> [pdf] (LIANZA/Tony
Millett) "This would hugely impede one of the
major roles of libraries, which is to make
information (including digital information) as
widely and freely available as possible. Both
the Aotearoa People's Network, set up in public
libraries to facilitate access to information
and particularly to official and government
information, and the latest rural broadband
initiatives, will be seriously affected unless
the new policies enforced by these regulations
recognise best efforts by libraries to meet the
spirit of the law."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20110518/01343314311/new-zealand-libraries-considering-shutting-off-public-internet-access-to-avoid-three-strikes-law.shtml">New
Zealand libraries considering shutting off
public internet access to avoid three strikes
law</a> (Techdirt/Mike Masnick) "While various
librarians insist they made this issue known to
elected officials, the law makes no exception
for operations like a library. That is, if three
people in a library use the internet connection
there for infringing purposes, the entire
library may lose its internet access. Thus, in
order to preserve internet access for those who
work at the library, many New Zealand libraries
are considering turning off internet access for
the public."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2009/04/09WELLINGTON88.html">American
Embassy Wellington cable to U.S. Secretary of
State</a>, et al., 2009-04-03 (WikiLeaks)
"Embassy will continue to stress with GNZ
[Government of New Zealand] officials the need
for a shorter rather than protracted timeline
for the redraft and will ascertain the details
of a notice and comment period for public
submissions once released by GNZ. During this
hiatus we've proposed holding DVC(s) [digital
video conferences] between NZ and U.S.
interlocutors to possibly help with drafting and
as a public diplomacy tool to dispel public
misperceptions about proper role of IPR
[intellectual property rights] protection. U.S.
agencies have the benefit of 10 years worth of
experience in enforcing the U.S. Digital
Millennium Copyright Act that may serve useful
to New Zealand officials in their effort to
implement section 92A."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>LIANZA
fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">The
Library and Information Association of New Zealand
Aotearoa / Te Rau Herenga o Aotearoa represents
448 public, educational, commercial, industrial,
legal, health, and government libraries in New
Zealand.
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