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It’s not safe out there, especially on your own Facebook page

Posted: December 18th, 2008, 5:03am CET by sarah

There is certainly a value to social networking websites. Some serve professional networking purposes (such as LinkedIn). And others, like Facebook, have proved to be an effective means of connecting with old friends (for me, including ones I’d lost touch with completely). It’s not news that we use these websites at our own peril. But [...]
Trade marks and Big Tobacco

Posted: December 3rd, 2008, 9:48am CET by kim

Wonderful post from Professor Mark Davison on the Australian Trade Marks Blog. ‘Nuff said.
“Register and Protect your creative work … by an Official Copyright”

Posted: December 2nd, 2008, 9:09am CET by kim

Does this site strike anyone else as, well, just a bit dodgy? “International validity for a lifetime”???
Hugh Laddie - Tribute

Posted: November 30th, 2008, 11:24pm CET by kim

I’m very sad to hear of the death of Sir Hugh Laddie. Tributes are pouring in, of course. I’ll remember him for the 1995 Stephen Stewart lecture, “Copyright, Over-Strength, Over-Regulated, Over-Rated,” 18 E.I.PR. 253 (1996) - I read it the same year I first studied copyright, and it’s influenced my thinking ever since. His Modern [...]
Copyright Teaching Resources (make your own anti-piracy ad!)

Posted: November 25th, 2008, 8:19am CET by kim

AFACT have a new (I think?) set of resources for teaching copyright to school kids.You can write your own copyright law (results of that might be interesting). You can even make your own anti-piracy ad! yay! (of course, people have been doing that for a while now… and here…. and here….) :) I’ve yet to [...]
Why iiNet?

Posted: November 23rd, 2008, 11:57pm CET by kim

ZDNet has some interesting discussion of different ISPs’ policies.
Australian Censorship Issue Event at UNSW next Thursday

Posted: November 21st, 2008, 7:40am CET by kim

I mentioned yesterday the current debate over internet censorship in Australia. I should, at the same time, have mentioned a free event that UNSW’s Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre is having next Thursday. Full webpage here with speakers/program/etc. Here’s the short version: The UNSW Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre is hosting a forum [...]
The Case Against iiNet (updated/reworded a little)

Posted: November 21st, 2008, 7:07am CET by kim

As I noted yesterday, a legal action has been launched by some 34 applicants from the television and movie industry against Australian ISP iiNet, alleging that iiNet has authorised copyright infringement by failing to take (adequate) steps to prevent sharing and downloading of films and TV shows via protocols like BitTorrent. A kind little birdie [...]
Radio Silence and the new developments

Posted: November 20th, 2008, 6:13am CET by kim

and all hell breaks loose, it seems. Sorry for the long radio silence: I’ve been on a research trip and not following things as closely as perhaps I should. A couple of general catch up notes: I would blog about the Internet Censorship material - I simply can’t believe that the Australian government is seriously wanting [...]
Lawsuit filed against Australian ISP

Posted: November 20th, 2008, 6:04am CET by kim

We’ve been expecting this might happen for a while. Now it has. From the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft media release: “Today, seven leading film companies and their affiliates and licensees filed a legal action against iiNet, a major Australian internet service provider. The action was filed by Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros Entertainment, Paramount [...]
Australian government intends to introduce resale royalty right for visual art

Posted: October 23rd, 2008, 7:27am CEST by sarah

On 3 October, Australian Arts Minister Peter Garrett announced that the Australian Federal Government plans to introduce a resale royalty right for works of visual art by 1 July 2009. This right will ensure that visual artists receive a portion of the proceeds from resales of their works. The legislation establishing the resale royalty right [...]
Technical problems

Posted: September 25th, 2008, 11:11am CEST by ben

Sorry about the outage - had some technical problems for much of today. Lawfont is back and should be fine now (touch wood)… .
The tween and the 30-something

Posted: September 11th, 2008, 5:45am CEST by sarah

Google turned 10 last week, to Microsoft’s 33. There’s a little comparison of Google and Microsoft here. Both the comparison and the comments it received are interesting. For one, although both giants in their fields, can the two companies really be compared?
IceTV granted special leave

Posted: August 26th, 2008, 7:32am CEST by kim

You heard it first … everywhere else. I know. House of Commons has reported it, as have assiduous commenters on this blog. But for those who didn’t know: IceTV has been granted special leave. More commentary from House of Commons here. My previous commentary here and here; Bill Patry here. For my money, read David Lindsay’s [...]
More on internet content filtering

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 1:53am CEST by kim

On Monday Susanne noted that ACMA had released their internet content filtering report. Well, as you can imagine, there’s been some blogospheric and professional reaction: SAGE (the Sysadmin Guild of Australia) has slammed the artificiality of the methodology used (press release, media report); Somebodythinkofthechildren has produced a great summary set of links to other reactions, here (hat [...]
CAL wins in the High Court: NSW Govt has no implied license to make and distribute copies of surveyors’ drawings [updated]

Posted: August 6th, 2008, 6:30am CEST by kim

So CAL has had a win in the High Court. In Copyright Agency Limited vs The State of NSW [2008] HCA 35, a unanimous High Court overturned the Full Federal Court’s ruling that Lands and Property Information (formerly the Land Titles Office), part of the NSW Department of Lands, does not have an implied license [...]
ISP-level internet content filtering - the report

Posted: August 4th, 2008, 8:43am CEST by susanne

On 28 July, the Australian Communications and Media Authority released its report which sets out the findings of the closed environment testing of ISP-level filters conducted in 2008. The Closed Environment testing report followed hot on the heels of the Developments in Internet Filtering Technologies and Other Measures for Promoting Online Safety report released in [...]
The New CJ and IP

Posted: July 31st, 2008, 7:54am CEST by kim

It’s always exciting to have a new Chief Justice of the High Court. Hearty congratulations of course to the CJ-elect, Robert French. If this speech on IP is anything to go by - well, I suspect Inchoate is going to have plenty of material for his ‘High Court transcript funnies’ into the future. (hat tip: [...]
ACTA - A Statement of Principles for Australian Negotiators

Posted: July 29th, 2008, 4:49am CEST by kim

The Internet Industry Association, CHOICE (the Australian Consumers’ Association), the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and Australian Digital Alliance (ADA) have today expressed their concern about the possible contents of the ACTA negotiations that I’ve discussed a few times (most recently here). They have also agreed a set of six principles which, in their [...]
Bill Patry in Australia

Posted: July 28th, 2008, 1:19am CEST by kim

Just have to alert you to this upcoming event: Bill Patry is speaking on copyright in Australia in August. It’s not that often we have speakers here in Australia on copyright with such an amazing range of credentials: formerly copyright counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, formerly Policy Planning Advisor [...]

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