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You don't have to be a great photographer to care about what happens when you upload your photo.

The promise and potential of big data must be matched by a considered approach to collection, storage, licensing and use.

Archaeologists working on the artefacts of Tutankhamen’s tomb recently discovered the world’s oldest white wine. As you might expect after 3,000 years, the wine jars given to the pharaoh as gifts for the after life contained only residues.

Consumer protection laws, passing off, copyright or registered designs are all options to scare off a copycat competitor.

In Parramatta Design & Developments Pty Ltd & Anor v Concrete Pty Ltd [2005] FCAFC 138, joint venturers, including an architect, bought a site in 1998 for $560,000.

The Copyright Act does not cover digitally created streams of data representing the sounds and images of the event.

The court ordered a home-owner to strip out architectural features after finding that the design had infringed copyright.

FC held recently that copyright law does not provide a mechanism for protecting the reputation of the owner of copyright.

Australian designers should take all necessary steps to ensure that their brands and designs are properly protected.

Internet intermediaries support reforming the copyright infringement safe harbour scheme, while IP owners want more reform.

We have recently reported on the long-awaited decision of the United States Supreme Court in Bilski, which amongst other things, upheld the "machine or transformation" test as an "important tool" in determining patentable subject matter

With the proliferation of patents and licences with overlapping and competing rights, the ability to interpret and filter patent documents has never been more important. Recently, Australian start-up CAMBIA has improved access to patent texts by creating Patent Lens; an open source, freely accessible IP database that contains a large collection of patent documents from the European Patent Office , the US Patent & Trademark Office and the World Intellectual Property Organisation.

Article discusses case that shows the importance of using an appropriate SND to indicate new and distinctive features. .

After waging a three year battle which ended up in the High Court of Australia, Nine has been left out in the cold in relation to what it thought was its intellectual property.

This case serves as a reminder to copyright owners that clear express licence terms are preferable to implied licences.

John Fairbain explains the iiNet decision and ISP's liability for users' copyright infringements to Boardroom Radio

The Bill will give rights-holders an efficient mechanism to disrupt copyright infringement websites operated overseas.