Jones Dail: Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Bill — Third Reading 
Jones Dail: Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Bill — Third Reading 
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DAIL JONES (NZ First) 
: 
 Last Thursday at about 2 minutes to 6 I was speaking on the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Bill. 
Pita Paraone 
: You were making a good speech. 
DAIL JONES 
: Thank you very much. This is a fresh day and people who are extremely interested in this legislation would I think like to know just a little bit more about it. Of course this debate is the third reading debate. It is the bill’s final reading and after the vote today the legislation can be passed into law after the appropriate signatures by the appropriate people. 
The bill amends the Copyright Act 1994 to address the emergence of technologies such as the Internet. It seeks to maintain the existing balance between the interests of the owners and those of the users of copyrighted works. It also seeks to create a more technology-neutral framework for the Copyright Act. Those of us who are up to date with technological matters such as using iPods and copying things on to discs—the latter I get my son to do for me because I have not quite grasped how to do it yet although the iPod side of things is very enjoyable—will be very interested in this bill as it brings issues like that right up to date. 
If people steal something if they re-record music without being given the right to do so by the owner or without being given any other rights what they are actually doing is depriving artists of the income they deserve for having created the item in the first place. Stealing of copyright is theft and something should be done to make sure that such people are caught. Of course a law and order party like New Zealand First wants to make sure that workers are rewarded for what they do and that those people who want to steal the work of the workers are penalised. 
The bill takes into account international developments in copyright law and it incorporates many aspects of the two treaties negotiated by the members of the World Intellectual Property Organization or WIPO—which is something very dangerous in the copyright area; the last thing people want to do is to wipe what they have just put on an iPod or whatever! Those treaties are the World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty and the World Intellectual Property Organization Performances and Phonograms Treaty. 
This bill has been fully considered by the Commerce Committee and we have also had a good discussion of it at the Committee stage. The bill covers a number of areas of interest for people in the educational field relating to copying for educational purposes storing for educational purposes copying by librarians and archivists for replacement and conditions for libraries and archives that are making and supplying digital copies. The bill covers issues such as the observing studying or testing of computer programs. It also looks at communication works and various issues under that heading such as format shifting for personal use time shifting free public playing or showing of a communication work that is simultaneous with reception and reception and retransmission of broadcast in cable programme service. 
The bill has looked at Internet service provider obligations and generally I believe it has done its best to bring issues up to date as much as they can be at the present time. One could say that more could be done immediately but as always at least something has been done and in fact it is quite a substantial something that is contained in this legislation which New Zealand First supports. We will be voting in favour of the bill when the appropriate time arrives.