Archive for November, 2008
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008How ironic that ACT violated the Greens’ intellectual property rights by pinching their cute-kid photo. So much for the law-and-order party. Still, I think this points up a gap in our law. Spoofs like this should be fair game, I think. The US has a fairly strong parody defence to copyright infringements. Australia has followed […]
Overcharged?
Monday, November 3rd, 2008It was always possible that further charges were to be laid against some of the Urewera defendants, and here they are: participation in an organised criminal group. Must say, though, I feel some disquiet about the adding of these broad-based charges (as opposed to the more specific Arms Act ones) after the High Court has […]
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