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Convergence Review recommends major changes to media ownership rules

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
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  • May 1 2012

Australia's media ownership rules would be significantly overhauled, if the Convergence Review's recommendations are accepted by the Australian Government

Top tips for vetting cloud providers

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
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  • March 15 2012

Jim FitzSimons talks to BRR Media about the legal issues in cloud computing and how to get the best out of it

Any port in a storm: Australian Government reviews safe harbour laws

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
  • -
  • October 17 2011

A new consultation paper, Revising the scope of the copyright ‘safe harbour scheme’, proposes remedying a gap in the safe harbour provisions of the Copyright Act

Convergence Review moves ahead with five new discussion papers

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
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  • September 26 2011

The Convergence Review is seeking the public's views on five new discussion papers to help guide its deliberations of the future shape of Australia's media and communications sectors, with comments due by 28 October 2011

Media codes and tech advances: Government releases more details of its independent media inquiry

  • Clayton Utz
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • September 14 2011

Having announced that it will commission an independent media review, the Australian Government has today released the terms of reference for it, and that it will have some overlap with the Convergence Review that is also underway

How well does the Interactive Gambling Act work, asks new review

  • Clayton Utz
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • September 13 2011

Australia's interactive gambling laws are under review, with the release of the discussion paper Review of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001

Omitting an intended upper financial limit in an expert determination clause leads to uncertainty

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
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  • September 13 2011

Contractual parties adopting expert determination of disputes to a defined financial limit may regret omitting that specified limit from their dispute resolution clause

Infringement notices for more telecommunications offences - and higher penalties too

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
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  • September 8 2011

Telecommunications providers could face higher penalties for breaching their performance benchmarks, if proposals in a new consultation paper are adopted

Everything that rises must converge: the Convergence Review seeks views on emerging issues

  • Clayton Utz
  • -
  • Australia
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  • July 8 2011

The Australian Government's Convergence Review has released a consultation paper, Emerging Issues, which summarises some of the information received throughout the last few months of consultation

Yeswe.cann - ICANN opens the domain name floodgates

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
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  • June 23 2011

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the entity responsible for the management of top-level domains, has approved a groundbreaking plan to dramatically increase the number of domain name suffixes that are available