Winning the Web: New Zealands part in an international story
(crossposted from CreativeFreedom.org.nz)
The Creative Freedom Foundation were among 6 international groups interviewed in Winning the Web: a report just released from the Open Society Institute. The report “examined 6 successful campaigns for intellectual property reform, in Brazil, Canada, the US, France, New Zealand, and the UK. [...] Legal reform is presented with two separate challenges. The first is a small but vocal minority of entrenched corporate interests – the rightsholder lobby. Wedded to business models that pre-date the age of networked digital technology, they exploit their position as incumbents to influence legislators. Often representing the world’s biggest multinational corporations, they hijack a narrative that belongs to poor artists [...] The self-interest behind this practice is masked by a flawed orthodoxy that is rarely backed up by evidence – that more intellectual property provision is always good for economic growth” The report was written by Becky Hogge, former Executive Director of the Open Rights Group.
