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Bronwyn Holloway-Smith is a New Zealand artist, art researcher and advocate specialising in 20th century work. She has a doctorate (PhD) in Fine Art from the Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts (CoCA) at Massey University. Holloway-Smith lives in Wellington.

Working life
In 2006, Holloway-Smith graduated with an honours degree in Fine Art from Massey University.

Creative Freedom Foundation (2008–2014)
Section 92A was added to the Copyright Act 1994 by the Fifth Labour Government in October 2008. It said "Internet service provider must have policy for terminating accounts of repeat infringers". The section was due to come into force on 28 February 2009. Holloway-Smith supported copyright law to protect the intellectual property of artists. However, she believed section 92A was unjust because it allowed people's Internet access to be suspended without a fair hearing.

In December 2008, Holloway-Smith co-founded the Creative Freedom Foundation (CFF) to campaign for the repeal of section 92A.

The foundation called for the first New Zealand Internet Blackout 16–23 February 2009 and organised petitions. On 19 February, Holloway-Smith led around 200 protestors at parliament. She handed the petitions to Peter Dunne MP with over 10,000 virtual and 149 written signatures.

The newly-elected Fifth National Government did not bring section 92A into force. In July, they proposed a replacement that narrowed the scope to file sharing networks. Copyright infringers would be warned then taken to the Copyright Tribunal for fines or suspension of Internet access. Holloway-Smith said the proposal was "... much better than the previous regime, ..." The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011 repealed section 92A and added the new regime as section 122.