Kahurangi Carter: Green MP on Copyright (Parody and Satire) Amendment Bill

The Copyright (Parody and Satire) Amendment Bill was pulled from the biscuit tin on Friday. 

It aims to protect comedians, critics, and artists when poking fun - without breaking the law. 

Green Party List MP Kahurangi Carter joins to explain more. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've got a novel private members bill pulled from the

(00:01):
old famed biscuit, and this is the Copyright, Parody and
Satire Amendment Bill. It aims to protect comedians, critics and
artists when poking fun without breaking the law. Now the
Green MP Kadi Kata is with us on this Good
morning to you.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Oh, good morning mate.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Where did this come from?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Oh? Well, this is actually a bill that has been
around the Greens for a while. We did have Green
MP Geracus had it as a member's bill back in
two fifteen, twenty fifteen, and so there's quite a long
legacy of this on the Greens. And before becoming an
MP is actually an actor, and so my comedian friends

(00:39):
would talk about how out of date the satire and
parody law was and how styfing it was. So I
was really excited to have it in the in the
ballot and then even more excited to have it pulled.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Next problem, do you have the numbers?

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Well? I do think that members bill should be something
that you know, make a difference for people, but also
can get that that support across the House. And we've
seen that with my colleague TiO Toyona's someone Citizenhip Citizenship Bill,
and yeah, so I'm pretty excited. And I know that

(01:19):
Simon Brown actually did have a member's bill similar to
this a while back, so I do think it is
a bill that we are going to get support across
the House for.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
You know, yeah, is it jurisdictionally challenging given if you
were feend somebody across a line or a perceived line,
that'll be global potentially, whereas the laws can only be
passed in this country.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
That is an interesting part and that's why I'm really
excited about actually getting this burd select committee stage. And
that's like we are coming into line with Australia and
America and other countries that are similar to us. So
we want to make this for New Zealand and something
that really suits our context. So I'm looking forward to

(02:06):
the silly committee stage.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
All right, let's see where it goes, and we'll stay
in touch on a car Hadding a Carter Green MP
and at this early stage not on Audrey Young's list
of opposition MPs. But maybe Audrey was listening to that
thinking hold on, I missed a trick there. For more
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