David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have a good deal of sympathy with the intentions behind this amendment. It seems that it would be absurd to allow material to be publically available on the Internet yet still make it an offence for someone else to copy it. It is something of a nonsense, and Senator Warfield has made a good point about that. I am slightly concerned about one of the subsections, which reads:

For the purposes of this subsection, a work shall have been made available in the State through the internet where—(i) it is made available to the public either from a website with a domain name which relates to the State or to a place within the State, or by similar or related means.

That seems to be very broad indeed, and would allow for all kinds of odd websites to make this type of claims. I am interested in what the Senator has to say about that.

My understanding is that we are talking about amendments Nos. 2 to 9, inclusive. Is that correct?