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Viewing cable 09WELLINGTON88, NEW ZEALAND TO REDRAFT SECTION 92A OF NEW
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09WELLINGTON88 | 2009-04-03 03:03 | 2011-04-28 00:12 | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | Embassy Wellington |
VZCZCXRO8351
PP RUEHNZ
DE RUEHWL #0088/01 0930331
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 030331Z APR 09
FM AMEMBASSY WELLINGTON
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 5818
INFO RUEHBY/AMEMBASSY CANBERRA PRIORITY 5483
RUEHNZ/AMCONSUL AUCKLAND PRIORITY 1943
RUEHDN/AMCONSUL SYDNEY PRIORITY 0822
RUCPDOC/USDOC WASHDC PRIORITY 0294
RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHDC PRIORITY
RUEHRC/DEPT OF AGRICULTURE WASHDC PRIORITY
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 WELLINGTON 000088
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE PASS TO USPTO, U.S COPYRIGHT OFFICE, USTR JARED
RAGLAND, COMMERCE FOR ITA/MAC/OIPR, STATE FOR EAP/ANP,
EEB/TPP/IPE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ECON ETRD KIPR NZ
SUBJECT: NEW ZEALAND TO REDRAFT SECTION 92A OF NEW
COPYRIGHT LAW
¶1. (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 23, New Zealand's Minister of
Commerce Simon Power announced that the GNZ would suspend
section 92A of the new copyright law, which would have
created new regulations for terminating internet accounts of
repeat copyright infringers. Negotiators for both the
intellectual property rights (IPR) industry and the
Telecommunications Carrier Forum (TCF - the association of
internet service providers (ISPs)) were surprised; they had
felt they were close to finalizing a voluntary code of
practice which would have served as the regulatory foundation
for enforcing this section of the law. Minister Power
decided that the proposed code might not be workable on a
voluntary basis, and therefore reasserted the government's
authority to redraft section 92A. In doing so he reaffirmed
the GNZ's commitment to the importance of IPR protection to
NZ's creative industries. It now will be crucial to monitor
the progress of GNZ redrafting to ensure it succeeds in a
timely manner. End Summary.
Background
----------
¶2. (SBU) The Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008
was originally scheduled to go into full force on February
28, 2009 but in the weeks leading up to the deadline, public
interest groups raised a chorus of concerns claiming that the
law's requirement to terminate internet subscribers who
allegedly "pirated" digital copyrighted materials over the
internet would infringe on due process, freedom of speech and
the public's right to access information. The negative
publicity led to demonstrations staged in front of
Parliament, organized by a group called the Creative Freedom
Foundation.
¶3. (SBU) The publicity drew the attention of some minority
party politicians who hoped to ride a new populist wave. The
United Future Party's leader Peter Dunne wanted Parliament to
strike section 92A entirely from the new copyright bill
through an arcane legal maneuver which would have required
the Governor General to quash the provision. ACT Party
leader Rodney Hyde also joined in the chorus calling for
repeal of the section while he castigated the previous Labour
government for its "poor" drafting of the Bill. Both United
and ACT are current members of the National led coalition
government.
¶4. (SBU) In reaction, a core panel was formed within the
Cabinet consisting of the Commerce Minister Simon Power,
Communications/IT Minister Steven Joyce, Broadcasting
Minister Jonathan Coleman and Attorney General Chris
Finlayson to develop a game plan and dampen the negative
publicity. Meanwhile, Dunne had been asked by Simon Power to
consider reformulating the provision in language more
acceptable to the ISPs instead of stripping the law entirely
of its content.
¶5. (SBU) The response developed by the four ministers and
announced by Simon Power as lead was to suspend section 92A
for 30 days during which time the IP rights holders would
hammer out a code of practice with the Telecommunication
Carriers Forum (TCF - industry association representing NZ's
major ISPs - Telecom, Telstra, Vodafone, Kordia and Callplus)
which would serve as the regulatory foundation for section
92A. The law would then go into force at the end of March
and after 90 days it would be reviewed as to its appropriate
application.
Original Text of Section 92A
----------------------------
¶6. (U) Section 92A reads as follows:
Internet service providers (ISP) must have policy for
terminating accounts of repeat infringers
1) An ISP must adopt and reasonably implement a policy that
provides for termination, in appropriate circumstances, of
the account with that ISP of a repeat infringer.
2) In subsection (1), repeat infringer means a person who
repeatedly infringes the copyright in a work by using one (1)
or more of the Internet services of the ISP to do a
restricted act without the consent of the copyright owner.
WELLINGTON 00000088 002 OF 003
Telstra Pulls Out of Negotiations
---------------------------------
¶7. (SBU) Telstra, one of the major New Zealand ISPs,
signaled during the week of March 9 that it was no longer
willing to participate in the negotiations between the
copyright industry and the TCF on development of the code of
practice that would have served as the regulatory foundation
for enforcing section 92A. Press reported rumors that
Telstra's decision to cease cooperation may have originated
from the company's CEO Sol Trujillo who has been reported as
an opponent of similar legislation in Australia. The TCF
tried to continue working on the draft code with the
remaining NZ ISPs (Telecom, Vodafone, Kordia and Callplus).
However, in accordance with the TCF's by laws, unless there
is unanimous agreement among all members of the
telecommunications forum then the code of practice would not
be binding but merely voluntary. After Telstra's opting-out,
the remaining stakeholders were unable to come to full
agreement on a useable code of practice. They remained
deadlocked on two "minor" items: how to deal with fees (costs
imposed on rights holder for submitting termination requests)
and the length of time before termination (time between
notice of infraction and cancellation of internet service -
one versus two month lead-time).
GNZ Decides to Rewrite Section 92A
----------------------------------
¶8. (SBU) Minister Power, realizing that the proposed code of
practice could only be voluntary and not applicable to the
second largest ISP in NZ (Telstra) along with the end of
March deadline rapidly approaching, suspended the
negotiations and reasserted the government's authority to
redraft section 92A. In his announcement, Power stressed
that section 92A traverses an important issue in copyright
law reform and reaffirmed the GNZ's stance that internet
piracy is very costly to NZ's creative industries and needs
to be addressed.
¶9. (SBU) On March 23, Minister Power, issued a press release
after the weekly Cabinet meeting announcing that the GNZ
would suspend section 92A as of March 31. (Note: all other
provisions of the new copyright law are in force as of March
31 except but for section 92A. End note). The Government's
action came as a surprise because up to the time of the
Minister's announcement negotiators for both the IPR industry
and the Telecommunications Carrier Forum had said they were
close to finalizing a "voluntary" code of practice.
IPR Industry Expresses Disappointment
-------------------------------------
¶10. (SBU) On March 26, Charge' met with Frank Rittman, Vice
President and General Counsel for Asia Pacific Division of
the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and Tony Eaton, Director
of New Zealand Federation Against Copyright Theft (NZFACT) to
ascertain the IPR industry's reaction to suspension of
section 92A of the NZ Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment
Act 2008 and possible next steps by government, copyright
holders and internet service
providers.
¶11. (SBU) Rittman and Eaton had met earlier with the IP
division of Ministry of Economic Development (MED) charged
with the redraft of Section 92A. MED officials' chief
concern was that MED did not yet have clear instructions from
its political leadership, primarily from the Minister of
Commerce, as to timeline and process. Rittman felt that the
sense of urgency among the IP lawyers in MED was relatively
low and believed that a redraft was unlikely any time sooner
than late December 2009. As to the redrafting process, he
felt that the public's input would be sought - most likely to
diffuse the earlier criticism of lack of transparency in the
original formulation of 92A. Rittman said that the drafters
would need to satisfactorily address four main points:
- Resolve satisfactorily the question of indemnification
(i.e., who bears costs of improper termination).
- Agree to definition of what constitutes an ISP.
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- Ensure that process for notification and termination be
"timely" (IP industry asking for one month between final
warning and termination of internet service while ISPs
seeking two month lead-time).
- Determine who bears processing costs (there is the cost of
processing the notifications to customers for alleged misuse
estimated at approx NZ$100 per notification - will it be
shared or carried by ISPs).
Next Steps
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¶12. (SBU) Throughout the final stages of the law's (near)
implementation, the Embassy continued to met with IPR
stakeholders and GNZ officials to ascertain progress and
encourage resolution. To determine how a "workable" section
92A provision can be secured, Econoff met with Rory McLeod,
Director at Ministry of Economic Development (MED) with
responsibility for IPR within GNZ along with Paula Wilson,
Deputy Director for Trade Negotiations at MFAT, and was given
assurance that the government remains committed to redrafting
Section 92A.
¶13. (SBU) Embassy will continue to stress with GNZ officials
the need for a shorter rather than protracted timeline for
the redraft and will ascertain the details of a notice and
comment period for public submissions once released by GNZ.
During this hiatus we've proposed holding DVC(s) between NZ
and U.S. interlocutors to possibly help with drafting and as
a public diplomacy tool to dispel public misperceptions about
proper role of IPR protection. U.S. agencies have the
benefit of 10 years worth of experience in enforcing the U.S.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act that may serve useful to New
Zealand officials in their effort to implement section 92A.
KEEGAN