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A double bogey for descriptive domain names

  • Baldwins
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  • New Zealand
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  • April 30 2013

Last month we wrote about the need for businesses to adopt distinctive, non-descriptive trading names to adequately protect themselves against others

ISP liability for copyright infringement: are dodgy subscribers worth the risk?

  • Baldwins
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  • New Zealand
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  • April 12 2013

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) play a major role in our everyday lives. As gatekeepers to the internet, they provide us with the means to collect

To .kiwi or not to .kiwi? Setting the scene - an update on the new gTLDs

  • Simpson Grierson
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  • New Zealand
  • -
  • April 4 2013

ICANN, the international governing body for domain names, is in the process of introducing to the world hundreds, and potentially thousands, of new

Pirates of Aotearoa

  • Simpson Grierson
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  • New Zealand
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  • April 4 2013

The first decisions on any new area provide a platform from which the public can assess how the relevant law will be applied in future. The first New

Internet and the law: enforceability of browse-wrap terms and conditions

  • Simpson Grierson
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  • New Zealand, USA
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  • April 4 2013

Most prudent website operators include terms and conditions on their website to make it clear on what basis information, products or services

Google entrenches its policy to facilitate deceptive and misleading behaviour online

  • Baldwins
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  • Australia, New Zealand
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  • March 27 2013

Rights holders in New Zealand and Australia have long been able to rely on Google to assist with tackling trade mark infringement online. In a recent

Scammed again?

  • AJ Park
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  • New Zealand
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  • March 15 2013

Almost every day we are contacted by clients seeking confirmation about whether the communication they have received about another party registering

Owners of alleged copyright pirate Megaupload dealt a blow by New Zealand appeals court in ongoing extradition battle

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • New Zealand, USA
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  • March 4 2013

A New Zealand court of appeals has handed the US Government a major victory in its ongoing battle to extradite the owners of the foreign corporation

Crowdfunding a viable alternative to traditional capital raising?

  • Bell Gully
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  • New Zealand
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  • February 28 2013

Crowdfunding originated as a way of raising small amounts of money from a large number of individual contributors through the use of online funding

First blood to Skynet file-sharing law

  • Buddle Findlay
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  • New Zealand
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  • February 22 2013

The Copyright Tribunal has issued its first decision relating to the file-sharing provisions of the Copyright Act, the so-called Skynet or