Section 92A Scrapped

When Section 92a was announced I signed the petition at the Creative Freedom Foundation website and today I recieved the following email from them.

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 <http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html?id=231>