New Zealand: Govt thwarts film, movie industry lobbyists by keeping copyright infringement notice fee at $25

Posted by Glen Newton on Sep 06, 2012; 10:08pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/New-Zealand-Govt-thwarts-film-movie-industry-lobbyists-by-keeping-copyright-infringement-notice-fee-5-tp4986.html

http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/govt-thwarts-film-movie-industry-lobbyists-keeping-copyright-infringement-fee-25-ck-127696

"The government is set to keep the fee for an infringement notice
under the new file sharing law at $25. Commerce Minister Craig Foss
proposes no change to the controvesial fee in a briefing paper to
cabinet, made public this afteroon.
NZFACT - representing the major Hollywood studios - had wanted the fee
dropped to "pennies". (The fee is charged by an ISP to recoup the
cost, or part of the cost, of investigating an alleged offence, then
sending a warning notice to the customer concerned.)
The Recording Industry Association of NZ (Rianz), representing
multinational and local music labels, submitted the fee needed to be
dropped to $2 or less for it to send a serious number of infringement
notices."

Glen Newton
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