Intellectual property regulatory system
This page describes the intellectual property regulatory system, its objectives and our qualitative assessment of it. It also lists the main statutes and changes to regulation either planned or in progress.
This page describes the intellectual property regulatory system, its objectives and our qualitative assessment of it. It also lists the main statutes and changes to regulation either planned or in progress.
The Government is preparing to update the Copyright Act 1994.
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New Zealand is party to various international copyright agreements that set out minimum standards of protection for copyright.
The Copyright Act 1994 gives performers limited rights to control the exploitation of their performances where they haven’t given consent.
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The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011 sets out a process for dealing with copyright infringements that occur via peer-to-peer file sharing networks.
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