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W00T!! Got this email in this morning... s92a is dead! 

I received this email in today from my native New Zealand, it seems that New Zealand will now no longer be the first "civilised" nation to drop the "Innocent until proven guilty" approach to law! Thank goodness!


Hi Lance Wicks, we thought you'd like to know that the S92A has been scrapped.

The Creative Freedom Foundation are celebrating tonight after National's announcement this afternoon that Section 92A will be scrapped, and that they will work towards finding an alternative.

Chris Keall at the NBR reports: "Prime Minister John Key has announced that the government will throw out the controversial Section 92A of the Copyright Amendment Act and start again. Section 92A has been scrapped.". This is fantastic news, and it's great that Prime Minister John Key has taken a stand on this important issue. This draconian and naive law was originally championed by former-MP Labour's Judith Tizard. Now we need to help make some sensible copyright law that will protects artists and well as New Zealanders. The CFF are preparing to take part in this process.

Today is a victory for New Zealanders - artists and non-artists alike. The CFF thanks everyone of you who supported this movement: we couldn't have done it without you!
Further details at
http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html?id=231


Of course, politicians have a knack of scrapping unpopular things to reintroduce them later when they think nobody is looking so the CFF shall need to keep an eagle eye on the Beehive.

Of course we don't know how much of this turn around is due to the #blackout campaign that got so much great publicity, but lets chalk one up to it anyway. :-)

Thanks NZ for staying just a little bit sane for a little bit longer!

Lance

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