Posts by izogi
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Is copyright meant to be purely about incentive to create? If so, what's the argument for extending the term retrospectively for already-created works?
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Polity: TPP, eh?, in reply to Russell Brown,
there will be another hundred not earning, not being exploited, but nonetheless locked away from the public
I’m struggling to find concrete information, but has anyone seen any word on if and how this might affect services like Papers Past? That’s an example of a hugely useful resource for easily searching, browsing, re-discovering and referencing our own history. It's also a good example of the benefits of copyrighted material returning to the public domain. Yet the National Library already doesn’t provide material more recent than the 1940s “because of copyright restrictions”.
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Legal Beagle: Crowdsourcing Project Cortex, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Cortex sounds similar to Gore-Tex©
- blocks transit of hard water in, yet allows vapour out…Gore-Tex© also doesn’t work anywhere near as effectively as it’s marketed in typical New Zealand conditions, for what it’s worth. It’s mostly marketed and sold here because NZ just latches onto global demand trends, and it’s easier not to specialise. You can draw what metaphors from that as you will.
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Hard News: About Chris Brown, in reply to Craig Young,
TVNZ:
Ms Fox's opinion is at odds with former Green Party co-leader Dame Tariana Turia
Huh?
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Legal Beagle: The Greg King Memorial…, in reply to Myles Thomas,
That's a very interesting read. With a quick search I note that The Listener also had an article last year where they interviewed Rick Nevin and added some detail for NZ's context.
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Hard News: About Chris Brown, in reply to Musonda,
I hope he gets banned.
A minor point, but he’s already banned from entry. :)
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From a couple of hours ago, Chris Brown tweets his thanks to Dame Tariana Turia and other 'strong women'. https://twitter.com/chrisbrown/status/649763104931209216
Also reported by Radio NZ.
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Hard News: About Chris Brown, in reply to Sacha,
That was a strange interview. Kim Hill grilled her on due diligence and really just showed that Tariana Turia didn’t have a clue about the ongoing record. First she was claiming they’d done some investigation and believed claims had been made up, then when Kim Hill started listing incidents, she claimed she didn’t know anything about it, but it didn't matter anyway.
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While we’re on the topic, are young people, who are being lined up to be role-modelled at, expressing any opinions on this?
I’m not trendy enough to know where the forums are.
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Hard News: About Chris Brown, in reply to B Jones,
I’m staggered it can apply to someone who broke his partner’s back. There are people who have died because their partner’s or family member’s violent history wasn’t disclosed.
In retrospect I'm also surprised. I wasn't paying full attention in 2004, but the main focus of publicity I remember was on whether potential employers should be allowed to judge people on ancient minor convictions. Maybe I missed other discussions. I had a quick scan through Hansard from 2004 and those debates are stacked with references to employment matters, but I couldn't find any obvious references to anything like family violence even being discussed*.
Considering more recent publicity about domestic violence, I wonder if that might have been given closer consideration had the Bill been debated today. I find it concerning that it's apparently illegal for certain previous relevant convictions about violence against former partners and children to be revealed to a new partner.
* I'm probably using Hansard wrong or misunderstanding parliamentary process, because all I can find is a second reading which occurrs a week after a third reading. Am I missing something?