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The new New Zealand Parliament website has gone live this week. Juha has a few comments. I had a quick look around and it is not too bad.

I noticed a few strange things. The site doesn't appear to have an explicit copyright listing anywhere but I assume it is under a similar copyright to the main www.govt.nz site. Also the FAQs Page has You may not reproduce any image or photograph of Parliament Buildings for commercial purposes. Images of Parliament buildings (the Parliamentary Library, Parliament House, and the Beehive) are protected by copyright. which is a little strange. Hopefully just some nutty bureaucrat's rantings.

Hansard appears to be free of copyright though, this might come in use for a project I am planning.

On a similar topic I emailed the Maori Language Commission last week to ask if they were going to release the Monolingual (100% content) dictionary (see page 17 of this pdf) under an open license. Haven't heard back but it would be nice to see a million-odd dollars being used for something that could be distributed and added to freely by everybody.