Cease and Desist

From the instant that I published Just Like Yesterday, there was a copyright statement at the bottom of my blog that actually states that it is my copyrighted material. It might say 2022, but it's still valid in 2024. There is no legally valid way to challenge that right. I chose to explicitly exercise my rights under the Copyright Act 1994 to create a derivative work based on the screenplay that was called Weeded Out. That has become Just Like Yesterday, a series of stories. - The songs that I wrote are mine and registered with APRA; the folk songs that were initially in the Weeded Out screenplay are public domain. I'm actively using my songs in my 2030 script. That is also a legally valid choice. - There is no legally valid way for VUW, Red Scare or any other group of people that wanted me to be Tina to legally force me. They wrote 0% of the script. They wrote 0% of the songs. I can't believe we're still discussing this... I said cease and desist by Tuesday, and you chose (as per usual) to brand me as a criminal for demanding fair compensation regarding a script that wasn't produced under any binding contract or agreement. You chose to threaten me with criminal charges instead of meeting me and negotiating for something that wasn't yours. You chose to ignore my rights, and now I'd like to elucidate the consequences of that decision. The consequences are that you attempted to coerce me (blackmail is more apt). Those repeated insinuations that I might face criminal charges were honestly and utterly silly, and caused irreparable damage to my mental health. I now have paranoid fantasies that are the direct result of this repeated attempt to steal my work. I'm not being held under a compulsory treatment order. I'm not a student at VUW. There is simply no legally valid circumstance in which any unscrupulous hack or dickhead that has a superiority complex can force me to part with my IP. Accept my refusal. Accept that I want some peace and quiet, and that I want to be able to legitimately pursue my Māori language course without all this bullshit. That would be being human. Otherwise, it's like the fucking Matrix and a bunch of machines that refuse to accept my humanity are continuing to mainpulate me. Sorry, but I have rights, and my IP rights genuinely are inviolable, as I said hundreds upon hundreds of times in the previous year! That might be disappointing, but I'm so glad that our legal system doesn't allow people to coerce one into performing a script that is obviously autobiographical. VUW and ALL OTHER PARTIES will cease and desist. That is fair, reasonable and treating me like someone that can improve my own life without needing the assistance of people that distrust me, dislike me, and blame me for bringing their institution into disrepute (when the real complainants were targeting Jack Body). I didn't even mention the uni by name in my Beach Song. That musical is set in Dunedin. My songs aren't for sale; my script isn't for sale; my book might be if you let me finish it. So, please give up quickly, peacefully and reasonably. ✊🏻 - Regarding Pan's Preludes, it's exactly the same: the NZSO must cease and desist. There is no contract regarding a performance of that work. It is literally incumbent on arts bodies to ensure those contracts are in place, and instead they thought that - as a criminal - I wouldn't need such things as contracts. Due process exists in most democracies. I wasn't convicted of any crime, so it is unfairly prejudicial to treat me as a criminal. I realise that you're all used to drug laws, which are perverse and pervert due process, but this is actually an IP law question. Sad to say, but nobody else could lay claim to Pan either. I literally wrote every note. That means that the NZSO must cease and desist.