CFF Challenges APRA, RIANZ and NZFACT
(crossposted from CreativeFreedom.org.nz)
Stuff reports that the CFF are calling for a limit on fines, although it gets it somewhat wrong with the idea that we’re calling for $100 per infringement. To put this in context the Disputes Tribunal have a limit of $15,000, whereas the proposed Copyright Tribunal has no such limit — no maximum that a person might have to pay — so we’re trying to avoid a situation like what happened in the United States of a $3 million dollar fine for sharing 24 songs. We’ve suggested that (1) for the extreme cases there’s a limit of $1,000 and (2) that music and movies fines be based on CD and DVD prices rather than any massive figures. In any case fines would be late in the process and not upon each infringement as infered in the Stuff article. Unfortunately it’s clear that NZFACT are still pushing for internet termination which will harm many innocent people for the actions of a single person. Read the CFF Submission on s92A here. We challenge APRA, RIANZ and NZFACT to make their submissions public so that artists know what’s being done in their name.
