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An important issue to be considered was that of authority under licence to use constructions plans prepared by a party.

We discuss the appeal decision in Tamawood v Habitare.

The Supreme Court ordered a remodelling of a Cairns house, when the initial house plans were found to infringe copyright.

Answer - it depends. Did you develop it in your own time and with your own equipment? Was it part of your job?

Government has released a Discussion Paper on piracy and copyright, which aims to recommend some solutions to the issue.

In the war over illegal downloads, the judgment is a big win for the downloaders and a huge setback for copyright owners.

The Draft Copyright Notice Scheme Code proposes a "three strikes" system, but there are still details to be ironed out.

The ALRC's Issues Paper for its inquiry into Copyright and the Digital Economy has been released.

Copyright owners will find it hard but not impossible to prove ISPs are liable for customers' copyright infringement.

If you intend to create your own parody of an existing creative work, make sure you still engage in a 'fair dealing'.

For collaborators, a tempting and seemingly easy to live with solution appears to be joint ownership. But is it really all that effective? In this article, we briefly look at some difficulties.

Justice Jacobson of the Federal Court of Australia last week ruled that the iconic Australian pop song "Down Under", performed and recorded by the group Men at Work, reproduces a substantial part of the children’s song "Kookaburra sits in the old gumtree" ("Kookaburra") and infringes the copyright owned by Larrikin Music Publishing Pty Ltd.

Court has handed down its decision concerning the intellectual property rights of Star Wars artefacts.

What is the law & your options when you webpage, images or online content has been copied?

The Full Federal Court held that Optus' TV Now service infringed AFL's and NRL's copyright in their sports broadcasts.

The Full Federal Court has overturned the decision which legitimised the time shifting recording technology used by Optus.

A recent Federal Court decision illustrates the importance of seeking trade mark protection for phrases or slogans which are used as marketing tools.