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Welcome to The Pirate Party of New Zealand! (PPNZ)
Please feel free to contribute to the Wiki, or you may want to leave comments on the message boards. Please feel free to join the IRC Channel.
In order to gain edit access to the wiki please first add yourself to the 'wiki group' on the forums (user control panel, usergroups) then log into the wiki using the same username and password.
Mediawiki is a place where we can collaboratively work on documents and upload artwork (for example, proposed promotional material). You need to make a phpbb login and then add yourself to the Wiki group in the phpbb user control panel to edit the wiki, the same login and password should then work on the wiki. If it doesn't, please let zcat know and we'll figure out what broke.
Known bugs so far - usernames containing an underscore (_) and possibly other characters are considered valid by the phpbb software, but invalid by mediawiki. If you're one of those users, ask one of the admins (eg Edison Carter) to change your username. Or just make a new login for yourself.
You can discuss proposed changes to a page by clicking the Discussion tab. If you make a change and not everyone agrees with it, this is where you put forward your reasons for wanting the change, others can comment and hopefully we can reach a consensus.
For general discussion it's probably more appropriate to use the forum.
All content on this wiki must be correctly licensed for legal reuse and sharing under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 licence. Copyright-infringing or highly controversial material should be uploaded elsewhere, eg bayimg.com
About Us
Our platform is promotion of civil liberties in the areas of information and technology.
[ Read more ] [ Constitution ] [ Regional chapters and Young Pirates ] [ Meetings & Elections information ]
Our Philosophical Position on Copyright
To publish a work is to make it public, and for a published work to be controlled, the public must be controlled. We don't think authors have a moral right to impose such control, but rather that such control can only be justified by democratic agreement to advance the public good by providing an incentive for creating works.
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Our Policy
- Allow personal use, copying, and conveying of copyrighted works where money doesn't change hands
- Set copyright term to 10 years from publication
- Allow circumvention of 'Digital Rights Management'
- Require warnings on products effectively restricted by 'Digital Rights Management'
- Exclude life and intangible 'inventions' from patent cover
- Look to replace pharmaceutical patents with direct government funding for pharmaceutical research
- Require warrants for intercepting electronic messages
[ Read why ] [ Policy development ]
The Development of Copyright
Copyright was originally intended as a mechanism to promote the creation of works.
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