Chauvel Charles: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Chauvel Charles: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
[Sitting date: 07 November 2012. Volume:685;Page:6359. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
11. 
CHARLES CHAUVEL (Labour) 
 to the  
Prime Minister 
: Did he meet with Warner Brothers and New Line movie executives in Los Angeles and with US Trade Representative Ambassador Ron Kirk who is responsible for US intellectual property and piracy matters in the middle of last year; if so on what dates? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister) 
: 
 I had dinner with Warner Bros and New Line Cinema movie executives on 18 July 2011 and met with the US Trade Representative Ambassador Ron Kirk on 22 July. It is a little misleading to suggest that the office of the US Trade Representative is “responsible for US intellectual property and piracy matters”. It is one of a significant number of US agencies that have input into intellectual property policy and enforcement in the United States. These include the United States Copyright Office the United States Patent and Trademark Office the United States Department of Commerce the Office of Intellectual Property Rights the United States Department of State the Office of International Intellectual Property Enforcement the National Intelligence— 
Charles Chauvel 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I think the Prime Minister substantially answered the question. I am not interested in a list of other US agencies. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: The member would have been wise perhaps not to include an unnecessary phrase in his primary question. 
Charles Chauvel 
: The primary question ascribed responsibility to the US Trade Representative for a particular matter. There is no doubt that he has responsibility for that matter. The fact that other agencies also have that responsibility is neither here nor there. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Since the member does more or less challenge me if he checks the Standing Orders that phrase being allowed in the question was very marginal because it is absolutely unnecessary for the question—absolutely unnecessary for the meaning of the primary question—and that is why the Prime Minister I am sure latched on to it. It is just a lesson in why this Standing Order is worded the way it is. 
Charles Chauvel 
: At any of those meetings on either 18 or 22 July was there any discussion of the United States Government’s so-called review of notorious markets whose purpose is to identify economies that fail to deal adequately with intellectual property infringements? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: I am almost certain that is no; it was certainly no in the case of the Warner Bros meeting. In terms of the meeting that we had with Ron Kirk there was a wide-ranging discussion. We did talk a little about the Trans-Pacific Partnership. We did talk in relation to that agreement about upholding strong intellectual property frameworks. The only time the issue of piracy was raised it was actually raised by Ambassador Mike Moore who briefed Ambassador Kirk on the new copyright legislation that had been introduced in New Zealand. 
Clare Curran 
: Before he went on that trip did the Attorney-General discuss with him his recent trip to an Attorneys-General conference in Australia a conference that focused on cyber-crime and where the Attorney-General spoke specifically on extradition? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: I am very saddened to say this: no he did not. It would have been a fascinating trip and I love my engagements with Chris as he talks to me about his international travels. I wish he had done it because I would have listened very carefully. 
Clare Curran 
: Did the then commerce and justice Minister Simon Power discuss intellectual property issues and his meeting with the Asia-Pacific head of the Motion Picture Association of America Mike Ellis with him before or after he went on his US trip? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: No and at the risk of offending a colleague who has now left can I say also that I thoroughly enjoyed my conversations I had with Simon Power on a range of issues but this was not one of them.