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CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (National) : The Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Bill amends the Copyright Act 1994 to address the emergence of technologies such as the Internet. During the Committee stage I dealt at length with particular matters in both Parts 1 and 2, and I do not intend to repeat those comments here.
 
 
Clauses 1, 2, and 2A  

CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (National) : I can be relatively brief on these clauses. This is very important legislation, and I think that Mr Gallagher is right when he says it will become more important in the years to come. The first copyright Act, as I said, was that of the Statute of Anne in 1712, and of course the last substantive amendment to New Zealand law was the 1994 legislation, which basically followed, insofar as copyright was concerned, the 1988 Act from the United Kingdom.
 
 
Part 2 Amendments to Parts 6 to 11 of Copyright Act 1994

CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (National) : My call on this part will be relatively brief because Dr Worth has dealt in some detail with technological protection measures, but there are two issues that I want to raise. As we know, and both speakers have referred to it, the bill deals with technological protection measures but it limits the scope of these measures to those that protect established rights of copyright owners and, as the report of the Commerce Committee says, it specifically excludes the so-called access controls. That is an issue that we may need to revisit at some stage in the future. It is a very interesting issue.
 
 
Part 1 Amendments to Parts 1 to 5 of Copyright Act 1994

CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (National) : There are five issues I want to consider in Part 1, which deals with a number of very important matters. The first issue will be the meaning of the term “communication work”, the second issue will be the position of persons known as “educational resource suppliers”, the third issue will be the parallel importation of films, the fourth issue will be the position of Internet service providers, and the fifth issue is known as the “section 88” issue. Earlier in the day the Minister very kindly provided me with the Supplementary Order Paper on which she has set out the amendments she proposes. What I will do, as I go through the various issues I wish to discuss, is touch on the amendments that she wishes to make.