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ARTICLE · 27 MAY 2015

Recent developments that tighten the noose around copyright infringers

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A bill enables copyright owners to apply for court orders to disable access to copyright infringing overseas websites,

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Jimmy Gill
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The rapid pace of technological advancements versus the significantly slower rate of copyright law reform, coupled with the savviness of today's Internet user, have resulted in copyright infringements such as illegal movie downloads going largely unchecked in Australia. But in light of recent copyright law developments in Australia, the tide is shifting in favour of copyright owners.

In Dallas Buyers Club LLC v iiNet Limited [2015] FCA 317 (click here to read our recent article on it), the copyright owners of the movie Dallas Buyers Club were successful in obtaining a court order requiring several internet service providers to divulge the names and physical addresses of approximately 4,700 customers alleged to have infringed copyright in the movie by having illegally downloaded it.

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