Copyright laws and the subsequent penalties are quite substantive. Many individuals engage in this form of theft because they are not fully aware of the potential consequences. In actual fact, individuals who are engaged in piracy either through the illegal selling, buying, or sharing of copyrighted products are likely to face severe penalties. This is exactly what we need to keep in mind the next time we think about engaging in piracy of any kind. Copyright laws are quite clear in their scope and application and educating ourselves about them is the first step towards ensuring that they are followed and we are not unintentionally engaging in copyright infringement.
The New Zealand Federation Against Copyright Theft, or NZFACT, is an organisation that is committed to ensuring and protecting the rights of the New Zealand film and television industry, retailers, and movie fans. Copyright infringement has a wide number of manifestations and is something that applies to a vast number of scenarios. NZFACT has several members which include, but are not limited to:
Village Road show Limited
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, New Zealand
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Sony Pictures Releasing International Corporation
Twentieth Century Fox International Corporation
Universal International Films, Inc
Warner Bros. Pictures International, a division of Warner Bros. Pictures Inc.
NZFACT works with enforcement agencies and government officials to ensure the copyright infringement and piracy of any kind do not take place in New Zealand. Tony Eaton, a former police prosecutor in the New Zealand Courts, is the Executive Director of NZFACT. For more information about issues such as copyright infringement laws and regulations, legal penalties for copyright infringement and piracy, how to contribute towards the upkeep of copyright laws and regulations, how to ensure that you protect yourself and/or your corporation from potential litigation, please visit www.nzfact.co.nz.
Matt Lauer went after Bush over his secret prisons and the use of torture on the captured terrorists via The Today Show this morning. He was uncommonly strong and didn’t back down when Bush gave his pet answer. He hits the right note because if what we’ve been doing is legal then why was there the need for secret prisons? When Bush gets cornered–he starts saying he’s not going to talk about it anymore… Matt Lauer: And yet you admitted that there were these CIA secret facilities. OK? President Bush: So what? Why is that not within the law? Matt Lauer: The head of Amnesty International says secret sites are against international law. President Bush: Well, we just disagree with him. Plus, my job is to protect you. And most American people, if I said [to them] that we had who we think is the mastermind of the 9/11, they would say, “Why don’t you see if you can’t get information without torturing him,” which is what we did. Matt Lauer: I don’t want to let this “within the law issue” slip though. I mean, if, in fact, there was water boarding used with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and for the viewers, that’s basically when you strap someone to a board and you make them feel as if they’re going to drown by putting them underwater, if that was legal and within the law, why couldn’t you do it at Guantanamo? Why did you have to go to a secret location around the world? President Bush: I’m not going to talk about techniques. And, I’m not going explain to the enemy what we’re doing. All …
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