Posts Tagged ‘copyright’

Too many products are easier to throw away than fix – NZ consumers deserve a ‘right to repair’

Thursday, February 22nd, 2024
right to repair

There was a time when the family washing machine would last decades, with each breakdown fixed by the friendly local repair person. But those days are long gone. Today, it is often faster, easier and cheaper to replace household items, even when they are meant to be repairable. This is not just a consumer issue. Read more

Jesus does not hold copyright to book, German court rules

Friday, May 23rd, 2014

A German court has ruled that Jesus Christ does not hold the copyright to a book by a dead American psychologist. Helen Schucman, who died in 1981, had claimed that Jesus dictated the contents of her book “A Course in Miracles” during “waking dreams”. A German Christian academy published extracts from the book last year, Read more