The bill is intended to advance the goal of facilitating the use of modern technology and to take advantage of the knowledge economy. It contains provisions intended to facilitate these types of communications by enabling electronic communications to be used, provided they are functionally equivalent to paper-based legal requirements. The [...]
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Electronic Transactions Bill
30 October, 2008Computer Crimes
30 October, 2008Through a Supplementary Order Paper dated November 7 2000, an amendment to the Crimes Act was proposed through the Crimes Amendment Bill (No 6). The purpose of the Supplementary Order Paper was to add a new computer offence to those currently included in the Crimes Amendment Bill (No 6).
The new offence [...]
UDRP – Type Procedure For Domain Name Disputes
30 October, 2008The Internet Society of New Zealand (ISOCNZ) is setting up a working group to consider the question of whether New Zealand should adopt a UDRP-type arrangement to resolve New Zealand country code domain name disputes.
This will continue through 2001 and some change to the status quo is expected, whether in the [...]
Domain Names
30 October, 2008The courts in New Zealand have been willing to uphold rights in domain names and to require cybersquatters to either cancel their registered domain names or to hand them over to the plaintiff. In this sense, domain names have been treated as another species of IP right, even if technically speaking [...]
