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Court changes its tune on internet-streamed radio

  • Clayton Utz
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • March 5 2013

Copyright owners will be able to claim a separate royalty for their songs played in a radio program that is simulcast over the internet, following a

Federal Government responds to Convergence Review in part, with key issues left for another day

  • Clayton Utz
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • December 6 2012

The Federal Government's initial response to the Convergence Review Final Report deals with television broadcasting licence fees, Australian content requirements and the 75 audience reach rule

Optus TV Now copyright case: High Court refuses to play, but ALRC will pick up the ball

  • Clayton Utz
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • September 13 2012

The High Court will not hear the Optus TV Now appeal on copyright infringement, leaving the important issue of whether the time-shifting exception will be extended to cloud storage platforms to be considered by the Australian Law Reform Commission

English ISPs block access to The Pirate Bay is this a plank worth walking down?

  • Clayton Utz
  • -
  • Australia, United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 24 2012

An English court has ordered ISPs to block their customers' access to The Pirate Bay

Convergence Review recommends major changes to media ownership rules

  • Clayton Utz
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • May 1 2012

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

Australian Government looks at extending mandatory deposit to electronic materials

  • Clayton Utz
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • March 9 2012

As more and more material is produced solely in an electronic form, should its publishers be required to deposit an electronic copy with Australia's National Library?

No extra music royalties from streamed radio programs because they're broadcasts, says Federal Court

  • Clayton Utz
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • February 23 2012

In the latest case involving online technologies and copyright, the Federal Court has held that radio programs simulcast over the internet are "broadcasts", so broadcasters do not need to pay extra royalties for using copyrighted music (Phonographic Performance Company of Australia Ltd v Commercial Radio Australia Limited 2012 FCA 93

TV Now, copyright later: why the Federal Court found for Optus

  • Clayton Utz
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • February 7 2012

The issue of copyright in broadcasts is again in the headlines, with the recent decision over Optus' TV Now service (Singtel Optus Pty Ltd v National Rugby League Investments Pty Ltd (No 2) 2012 FCA 34

Convergence Review moves ahead with five new discussion papers

  • Clayton Utz
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • 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

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