Apparently, New Zealand’s copyright law has been amended to require ISPs to terminate the account of a “repeat infringer”.
Excess Copyright has the links.
Our law – Copyright Act s 116AG – already provides that a Court may order the “carriage service provider” to terminate a specified account.
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In Australia (since the famous McCabe v BAT case (overturned on appeal), of course, we know them as “document retention” policies.
In the US, a Federal District Court judge has ruled that Rambus cannot enforce a patent relating to DRAM technology as a result of its policy, implemented in 1998, of destroying documents where the court held Rambus should have known litigation was likely.
A different judge, in the District of Northern California, apparently took the opposite view.
An appeal has been foreshadowed.
Read further here.
Lid dip: Peter Clarke.
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