Way more than an everyday interest in IP
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Are all reality TV cooking shows the same? Television networks Seven and Nine were recently embroiled in legal proceedings over whether Nine’s new show, The Hotplate, is a rip-off of My Kitchen Rules. The food fight started when Hotplate aired at the same time of Seven’s new show, Restaurant Revolution. When Seven’s offering received a read more…
In the Dallas Buyers Club proceeding, Dallas Buyers Club and Voltage Pictures sought preliminary discovery from a number of ISPs of customer names and addresses associated with 4,716 IP addresses alleged to have been used to infringe copyright. As we previously reported (see our post here), on 7 April 2015, Justice Perram was satisfied in read more…
Yesterday, the Government announced that it has commissioned an economic analysis of some of the recommendations made by the Australian Law Reform Commission in its Copyright and the Digital Economy Report. The ALRC’s report, which was publicly released in February 2014, made a number of recommendations for reform of Australian Copyright law. One of the read more…
After years of negotiation and months of drafting, Australia signed the Free Trade Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the People’s Republic of China (ChAFTA). The Agreement addresses a number of important IP related issues and also sets out bilateral obligations to promote trade and investment in healthcare. Intellectual Property Chapter read more…
That selfie stick might actually be a wise investment – after all, your next Instagram post could be worth thousands. US artist Richard Prince’s latest exhibition, ‘New Portraits’, is a series of printed screenshots of other people’s Instagram photos. The going price for each piece? A cool US$90,000 (roughly A$115,000). The amount the original Instagram read more…
Question: What do these things have in common? a snowman loses his carrot nose, and it slides out to the middle of a frozen pond; the snowman is on one side of the pond and an animal who covets the nose is on the other; the characters engage in a contest to get to the read more…
There has been a great flurry of activity in the online copyright infringement space lately. Along with the Dallas Buyers Club decision (see our previous post here) and the proposed Industry Code for a copyright Notice scheme (here), the Government has recently introduced a Bill that would give the Federal Court a power to block read more…
On 7 April, Justice Perram of the Federal Court of Australia found that iiNet and five other ISPs should provide the names and addresses associated with 4,716 IP addresses to Dallas Buyers Club and Voltage Pictures. Dallas Buyers Club and Voltage (with rights in the movie, Dallas Buyers Club) had alleged that the IP addresses read more…
Back in November 2014 we reported that the iconic song, I Am Australian, was in the midst of a legal dispute in the Copyright Tribunal of Australia (Tribunal) between one of its co-authors, Bruce Woodley of The Seekers, and the Commonwealth Government. You can read more about the background to the dispute here. What’s the read more…