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Linking to a website can incur $11,000 fine
Nic Suzor discusses the threat of an $11,000 a day fine if the EFA did not remove a link on its website to gruesome pictures of aborted foetuses i.e. R+ rated content and possible freedom of speech...
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What the EU Commissioner said on the Internet and Downloading
Commissioner Reding, the EU’s Commissioner for information society and media, has attracted a degree of attention planning an overhaul of internet downloading rules. Her comments were part of a wide...
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Spam Act
Logan J has granted an interlocutory injunction under the Spam Act 2003, pending trial for civil penalties. Apart from the fact that cases under the Act are not exactly thick on the ground, the debate...
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Selected microblog posts for week ending 21/8/09
RT @pofip: ACCC warns about questionable trade mark renewals http://bit.ly/4l8aO1 Our list is here:http://bit.ly/hnznh @nipper: Podcast debate on SCOTUS granting cert in Bilski (patent) case:...
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Using a sign on the internet
Logan J has granted injunctions against International Hair Care UK’s use of AFFINAGE (and other trade marks) on its global website for (in effect) infringing International Hair Care Australia’s trade...
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Affinage and A.S.P. 2
For completeness, I should note that IHC UK has appealed Logan J’s decision earlier this month finding that it infringed IHC Australia’s registered trade mark for AFFINAGE. Summary here. Interestingly,...
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Lessig at e-G8 or Le civilised Internet vs gales of creative destruction
While we’re having our dark mutterings about what might be in a “Convergence Review“, the Leaders of the Free World (or at least the Western Hemisphere) meeting at Deauville have declared: 5. We...
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What happens on the Internet in 60 secs
70+ domain names registered 13,000+ iPhone apps downloaded 600+ new videos uploaded to YouTube … See the Infographic via Peter Black Share on Facebook
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ISPs and filtering
While we wait with bated breath for the High Court’s deliberations on Roadshow v iiNet (transcript of hearing here, here and here), it is worth noting that the CJEU (formerly the ECJ) has struck down...
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Extraditing (alleged) copyright criminals
The internet is all a twitter over the prospect that a 23 year old British subject, Richard O’Dwyer, may be extradited from the UK to the USA to face criminal charges for copyright infringement. Well...
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Simulcasting radio broadcasts over the internet
Foster J has ruled that radio stations do not have to pay an additional licence fee to the record companies for simultaneously transmitting their radio broadcasts over the internet. If you want to...
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The Canadian copyright ‘pentalogy’
Last year, the Supreme Court of Canada handed down 5 decisions on the same day relating to fair dealing and other issues arising from digital transmission of copyright material. In a number of...
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Keywords – Marks & Spencer infringes INTERFLORA TM
Marks & Spencer has been found to have infringed Interflora’s trade mark in the UK by ‘buying’ ads triggered by Google searches for the keyword INTERFLORA. An example of the ads Arnold J found...
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The power of a registered trade mark
If you have tried to buy, sell or rent property in Australia in the last 10 years (at the least!), like some nearly 7 million other Australians you have no doubt come across realestate.com.au, the...
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