Maximalist copyright bullcrap

The Post reports:

A select committee has been warned today that a satire and parody exception to copyright laws, if approved, could more easily allow AI companies to exploit NZ creatives’ work.

New Zealand’s creative industries have strong reservations about a new bill that will allow people the free use of copyright-protected material for social commentary – in part because the bill completely ignores AI, the main way copyright infringements happen these days.

This is a red herring. The bill doesn’t allow AI copyright infringement. It merely gives an exception for the very limited categories of parody and satire.

But the day’s main submitter against the bill, Paula Browning, executive director of WeCreate, said New Zealand should learn more from overseas examples before passing its own version. WeCreate is an alliance of 40 of the country’s major creative industries associations, representing 30,000 creatives across the screen, book publishing, music, performing arts and digital production industries.

They oppose anything which is not copyright maximalist. Just ignore them.