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PCI DSS is not voluntary if you transmit, store or process credit cards.

It is enforced through contract, typically for a merchant through their relationship with their bank, for service providers via the contract with the merchant.

Whilst this adds no additional information this editorial is from a provincial newspaper in NZ. It is notable as it could be seen to represent the sentiments of NZ's agricultural 'mid-west' towards the actions that have occurred in NZ at the request of the US.

IANAL JALS - also may be jurisdictionally biased

There are multiple copyrights associated with most content items. You don't get copyright based on time nor the effort involved - rather it is based on originality of the work.

So you can't claim the copyright of a play by typesetting it - but by typesetting it one can have the copyright in your original typographical arrangement of that play.

So just because the underlying work is in the public domain does not mean it safe to copy a representation of it which has been created in a way which allows the person who created the representation to claim copyright over their work.

Compare a person selling a photocopied 17th century print of a book against a person who retypes the text of that book and lays it out in an original way.

IMHO the issue here is with the policies of the publicly funded museums - there is an argument that if a public funded organisation creates a new copyright work based on public domain material then they should place that new work within the public domain or at least license it using CC.

Don't rely on the CNN piece, they have paraphrased the bugger out of the original report. [ http://www.doingbusiness.org ]

For instance there there significant differences between the US and NZ on labour issues, within the report US is rated 1, NZ - 14.

Whereas CNN says:

"As in the U.S. and Hong Kong, hiring and firing is relatively easy to do in New Zealand, with no mandated penalties, notice or severance payments for fired workers"

If yr really keen to discover more: http://www.ers.dol.govt.nz/