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Once this Bill becomes law, IP owners need to make sure their licences and assignments do not breach competition law.

You can make sure your competitors cannot make products with a similar appearance and to kill your competitive advantage.

The Issues Paper confirms that this is a wholesale review of the way in which IP is protected and enforced in Australia.

Of all the ways for 2021 to start, few would have predicted that one of the first viral trends of the new year would be sea shanties; songs that were once sung on sailing vessels...

"Sabacc" is a fictional card game in the Star Wars universe. In the most recent Star Wars film, a young Han Solo wins the Millennium Falcon during a game of Sabacc.

When will copyright subsist? Will bookmakers' use of race fields and sports fixtures infringe copyright held by racing and sports bodies? Don’t bet on it!

Use of unperformed development consent plans by purchasers may infringe copyright, which could be stopped by injunction.

This is our sixth publication of useful resources for our clients during the current coronavirus disruption.

Australian copyright law is set to advance in the face of ever-changing technology and use of copyright material. Australian copyright law is often criticised as being far behind the pace of technological developments in the use and abuse of copyright material.

Using even a small proportion of third party software without a licence could be held to be copyright infringement.

The Federal Court limited the types of claims DBC can make of alleged pirates ‒ and ordered it to pay a $600,000 bond.

The Australian Law Reform Commission has recommended Australia amend the Copyright Act to adopt the fair use doctrine.

Based on Australian copyright law as it currently stands, the resale of digital goods and music might not be permitted.

The Federal Court has held that Telstra's phone directories are not literary works protected by the Copyright Act because there is no clear authorship and no originality, throwing into doubt the copyright protection for any database (Telstra Corporation Limited v Phone Directories Company Pty Ltd [2010] FCA 44).

The Full Federal Court of Australia yesterday dismissed an appeal by Hollywood film studios that Australia’s third largest internet service provider (ISP), iiNet, had authorised copyright infringement by not suspending or terminating user’s accounts in cases of copyright infringement. However, the Full Court left the door open for ISPs to be liable for this conduct in the future by explaining how ISPs could be liable.

Over the last ten years, China has made considerable changes to its intellectual property enforcement mechanisms.

As with most major global events, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in numerous online parody songs, from ‘My Corona', to ‘Coronavirus Rhapsody' and riffs on The Beatles' ‘Yesterday'.