120 results found

Here are some guidelines so you can save yourself from Netflix' current content licensing headache.

David Gordon, Chairman of Ten Network Holdings has called for the removal of Australia's media ownership restrictions.

The package of reforms instigated by the Amendment Act also proposes to make changes to POPE regulations so that they only apply to larger theatres and public halls, for which they were originally designed.

Key recent developments in the area of Technology, Media and Telecommunications are summarised below.

The Federal Court rejected the appeal by three actors to be deemed casual employees rather than independent contractors.

The ACCC's draft Media Merger Guidelines indicate types of transactions which may succeed without regulatory challenge.

Some of the provisions of the federal Australian Information Commissioner Act 2010 and the federal Freedom of Information (Reform) Act 2010 ("Information Acts"), passed earlier this year, are about to come into effect. This article summarises some of the main changes.

The ALRC report has made a number of recommendations for a national classification scheme in the new media landscape.

Game distributors, retailers and advertisers may be at risk of prosecution and heavy fines for selling popular online games such as “World of Warcraft”, “Warhammer Online” and “Age of Conan” without classification.

The Sinner case is not the first time that anti-doping/integrity issues in tennis have been in the spotlight.

In NSW, festivals deemed 'subject' events must comply with approved policing and safety management plans.

The media's Right to Know campaign should embrace Assange's cause as an example of a concerted crackdown on journalists.

In a recent case the Administrative Appeals Tribunal considered whether the fees for processing a media outlet's request for documents under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) should be reduced on the grounds of public interest.

The extradition case against Julian Assange has been close to some sort of resolution for at least four years.

Potential impact on employment for both employer and employee arising from being a reality TV show contestant.

In July, Minister Coonan announced proposed changes to the current cross-media ownership and foreign media ownership laws, launched as part of a media reform package. In response, on 9 August 2006 the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) published its views on protecting competition (and possibly diversity) in the context of anticipated mergers in rapidly developing media markets.

A United States court has recently considered whether private communications sent through a social networking (such as Facebook or MySpace) or web hosting (such as Media Temple, Inc) sites are afforded protection from disclosure under the Stored Communications Act