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The Markle law suit provides invaluable guidance regarding breach of privacy, infringement of copyright & data breaches.

If the customers of an internet service provider (ISP) infringe copyright and the ISP does not take steps to stop it occurring, is it liable for copyright infringement? The Full Federal Court has found that iiNet Limited (iiNet) was not liable, but gave some guidance on how copyright owners can establish liability, in the eagerly-awaited appeal decision of Roadshow Films Pty Limited v iiNet Limited [2011] FCAFC 23.

Copyright in a tattoo is more complicated than regular copyright. Explanation of copyright law & in the context of tattoos.

The Federal Magistrates Court has found in favour of software publisher Microsoft Corporation ('Microsoft') in a copyright dispute against Rodney Mayhew.

In the latest in a series of ongoing cases between Ajinomoto Co Inc ('Ajinomoto') and NutraSweet Australia Pty Ltd ('Nutrasweet'), the Full Federal Court has affirmed that Ajinomoto's patent for a blended sweetener is invalid, on the ground of lack of inventive step.

While broadly supportive, the Australian Government will proceed cautiously with implementation of the recommendations.

Recent copyright infringement case considers how to assess whether a part of the copied work is a "substantial part".

To fully optimise the benefits of IP assets, all government agencies must ensure that their IP is properly protected.

In 1999, Australia’s premier flautist, Jane Rutter, entered into a marketing arrangement with a Margaret River wine producer, Brookland Valley.

The Federal Court has found in favour of Bullet Creative Pty Ltd, a design company and its employee, Mr Petro, in its dispute with Dais Studio Pty Ltd (Dais) over copyright in Dais's source code of the website content management system it has developed.

First published as part of Lauren Eade, Jodie Goonawardena, Miriam Zanker and Courtney White ‘Current Developments – Australia': AGL Energy Limited v Greenpeace Australia Pacific Limited [2021] FCA...

Who would have thought that a bank robbery scene from The Dark Knight would be shown in the Federal Court to illustrate copyright piracy? The scene was shown to illustrate the copyright piracy that iiNet (Australia’s third largest internet service provider after Telstra and Optus) is alleged to have encouraged its customers to engage in by illegally sharing copies of movies and music files on its network.

Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are extremely popular social networking sites that have opened exciting new marketing channels for businesses to promote their goods and services.

In this article we do a deep dive on key legal issues when buying a software business in Australia.

Identifying the manner in which an idea is expressed is of critical importance for any copyright enforcement.

Cricket Australia threatened to lock media organisations out of the fourth Ashes Test due to rebroadcasting of moving images from previous Tests over the internet.

Big Data, at least in its unstructured or semi structured form, is very unlikely to be entitled to copyright protection.