From: Vladimir Petranovic [vpetranovic@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 28 August 2006 3:50 p.m.
Subject: NZISF breakfast meeting - 14 September 2006

New Zealand Information Security Forum (NZISF) cordially invites you
and your friends to the September breakfast meeting:

Venue: The Auckland Club, 34 Shortland St, CBD, Auckland

Date: Thursday, 14 September 2006

Time: 7:30 am

Cost: NZISF, NZSA and NZCS members and students - $20, all others -
$25, Cash or cheques, no credit cards

Registration: E-mail your name, first name, business affiliation, and
phone number to: Vladimir Petranovic (vpetranovic@gmail.com), you will
receive confirmation via email.

Topic: Recent developments in criminal and copyright prosecutions

This presentation will address recent developments in the field of
computer crime and copyright infringement. There will be a brief
review of the computer crime provisions of the Crimes Act. This will
be followed with a discussion of some recent cases that have been
before the Courts which will highlight some of the problems
surrounding computer crime.  The focus will then shift to some recent
cases about Copyright infringement, some of the issues surrounding
these cases including elements of computer crime and matters to be
taken into account in sentencing for copyright infringement.

Presenter: Judge David Harvey

Judge David Harvey is from Auckland, New Zealand and was appointed as
a District Court Judge in 1989. He was educated at Kings School and
Kings College in Auckland. He spent a year in Minnesota, United States
of America as an American Field Service Scholar and graduated LLB from
the University of Auckland in 1969. He obtained a Master of
Jurisprudence Degree from the University of Waikato in 1994. He
practised as a litigator in South Auckland, Hamilton, West Auckland
and Auckland City before his appointment.

Judge Harvey has been interested in computers and the potential of
computers since 1980 and was involved in introduction of word
processing and computerised trust accounting to the firm in which he
was a partner. Since his appointment Judge Harvey has been closely
involved with Information Technology initiatives involving the
Judiciary undertaken by the former Department of Justice and the
present Department for Courts including the development of trial
management software.

In addition to his Judicial duties, Judge Harvey is consultant editor
for Butterworths "Electronic Business and Technology Law" and a member
of the Editorial Board for Butterworths "Technology Law Forum". He is
a part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland,
teaching Law and Information Technology. He has written extensively in
the field of law and technology and has presented a number of papers
to Conferences on related topics. He is Chair of the Copyright
Tribunal and has recently had published a book on the law and
networked systems entitled " Internet.law.nz - Selected Issues".
 
Regards,
Vladimir Petranovic