Delahunty Catherine: Copyright (Parallel Importing of Films) Amendment Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeDelahunty Catherine: Copyright (Parallel Importing of Films) Amendment Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 19 September 2013. Volume:693;Page:13559. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]CATHERINE DELAHUNTY (Green): I will take a brief call on the Copyright (Parallel Importing of Films) Amendment Bill because I was not on the Commerce Committee and my colleague Gareth Hughes did the substantive work on the bill. However I have got some points to make and one of them is that the Green Party loves the movies. The world has certainly changed since I was dragged hysterically screaming out of the Laurel and Hardy films and the Marx Brothers films. The world has changed a great deal and comedy has changed. But we are strongly committed to film and theatre we love culture in all its forms and we support movies. But we have some concerns about whether this bill is the right way to go. We have some very big concerns about the need for a proper revision of copyright and that is where like the previous speaker Iain Lees-Galloway we feel that the Trans-Pacific Partnership is already having very negative effects on our public life and on our debates in the sense that we cannot have the substantive debate that we want to have about copyright. We can reduce this to a simple issue but there are actually darker themes behind it.I live in a rural community and I love my theatre and I attend my cinema. But I want to make a comment that has not been made by any other parties to my knowledge. For example what is the real accessibility of the movies to one section of our community? For example my partner has paralysis in his legs. There are theatres we have gone to where it is very difficult for him to get into those theatres. There are theatres in rural New Zealand and in urban New Zealand that are not fully accessible. As my colleague in the Green Party Mojo Mathers has pointed out for the hearing impaired community many films available in the cinemas are not captioned. What has happened is that the illegal download has sometimes been the captioned download. We are not saying that that is right but we are saying that for that community they never—never—get to go to the cinema in rural communities and see the film if the film is not captioned. I believe we are in a state of transition where we were moving towards digital and we are also moving towards accessibility but very very slowly for a very very limited number of films and there is a substantive section of our community who for a range of impairment reasons are not able to access these films but at home they can.So I guess the Green Party is concerned that this extended transition is not actually helping the industry or helping the community to get their act together and make sure that we get full accessibility in all its senses. We do not actually support illegal downloads but we know that they are happening. We know that people are doing it and we know that they will continue to do that if there are continual limitations. That is not because we believe that everyone should have everything at once and they should not wait but the reality is that the digital generation—the e-generation which I am barely part of—has a different view. To some people 5 months is a very long time and they will access the stuff. But more cogent is the issue of accessibility for people with hearing impairments. That is a far more compelling argument in my view.So although we are not supporting the bill we do support a full review of copyright a modern approach to these issues full support for cinemas to be modern and competitive and for DVDs to be available to people who cannot otherwise access the culture that many of us take for granted—and we do. With those words I would like to end my statement. I look forward to a better process because this was a circus. Honestly the urgency was a circus and the whole process at the beginning was notgood. We need to make sure that we can have—not constrained by the phantom of free-trade deals that are not about trade or freedom—the proper conversation we need to have. Thank you.