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The changing face of artist's resale royalties

  • Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
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  • Australia, USA
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  • December 7 2010

In February 2009, a bill was introduced in the New York State Assembly that would require the seller to pay 5 of the sale price to the artist every time a work of art by a living artist is sold in New York for $1,000 or more

YouTube finds safe harbour in Viacom copyright case

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia, USA
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  • July 7 2010

Service providers in the US will be liable if they actually know of specific copyright infringements, but not if they only are generally aware of their users' infringing activity

I was kidding! humour and defamation

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Australia, USA
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  • November 22 2010

To what extent is "I was just joking" a defence to a defamation claim? Laura Little has written "Just a Joke: Defamatory Humor and Incongruity's Promise" (available at SSRN), which explores the ways in which courts have addressed "humour" in US and Australian defamation law

Point Break live! Heading for a wipe out!

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Australia, USA
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  • May 27 2011

In the hit 1991 film Point Break the FBI sends young agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) undercover at the beach to mix with surfers (including Bohdi, Patrick Swayze) that they believe could be members of a gang that robs banks wearing masks of ex-US presidents

Keeping up with Kim Kardashian: look-alikes, look out!

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Australia, USA
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  • August 3 2011

At the end of July, Kim Kardashian filed a lawsuit against Old Navy LLC, and its parent company, The Gap Inc, for using a look-alike in its February “Super C-U-T-E” ad campaign

BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

Ke$ha wound up over use of the term “Tik Tok”

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Australia, USA
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  • May 31 2011

For those unfamiliar with Kesha (stylised as Ke$ha), she rose to fame with her debut single "Tik Tok" which features lyrics such as "Tik Tok on the clock, But the party don't stop"

Social media, not social medicine

  • Barry.Nilsson. Lawyers
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  • Australia, USA
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  • November 14 2011

Only people beyond a certain vintage would understand the connection between a cassette tape and a pencil

Intermediary liability global

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Australia, India, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
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  • January 25 2012

They have also been a number of overseas developments that are of interest from an Australian perspective given the ongoing debate surrounding the issue

Social media explosion leaves defamation law at the starting gate

  • Corrs Chambers Westgarth
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  • Australia, USA
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  • May 30 2012

A recent US Court case highlights the dangers of online and social media opinion and shows that even those who make anonymous posts on bulletin boards can be held to account

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