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Google Inc v ACCC: More detailed analysis

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Australia
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  • February 6 2013

Further to our breaking news post this morning (we promised there was more to follow!), our Anthony McKew and John Swinson have prepared an alert on

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

JT International SA v Commonwealth 2012 HCA 43

  • Spruson & Ferguson
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  • Australia
  • -
  • November 20 2012

On 5 October 2012, the High Court of Australia handed down written reasons, following orders made on 15 August 2012 in favour of the defendant in each of JT International SA v Commonwealth and British American Tobacco Australasia Limited v Commonwealth

I think we should break up

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Australia
  • -
  • September 9 2011

When entering into licence agreements for TV and other media, few would forget to pay attention to the intellectual property rights of the parties

AFACT loses copyright appeal: full federal court finds iiNet did not authorise infringement

  • Davies Collison Cave
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  • Australia
  • -
  • February 25 2011

In a landmark 2-1 decision (Jagot J dissenting) with three separate judgments, the Full Federal Court yesterday dismissed an appeal against last year's decision that found internet service provider iiNet was not liable for the infringement of copyright by its users

Hollywood v ISP - iiNet held not responsible for its customers’ copyright infringement

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
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  • Australia
  • -
  • June 7 2010

On 4 February 2010, the Australian Federal Court dismissed a claim by a multi-national alliance of motion picture and recording industry companies, represented by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), that iiNet, Australia's third largest internet service provider, had authorised copyright infringement by failing to stop its customers from using the otherwise legitimate BitTorrent file sharing software system to download copyrighted movies

Larrikin Music Publishing Pty Ltd v EMI Songs Australia Pty Limited: kookaburra gets the last laugh

  • Piper Alderman
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  • Australia
  • -
  • March 26 2010

The decision concerned allegations including breach of copyright in respect of the pop song "Down Under", recorded in 1979 and again in 1981 by Men at Work

Hollywood v ISP iiNet held not responsible for its customers’ copyright infringement by Australian Federal Court

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
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  • Australia
  • -
  • March 24 2010

On 4 February 2010 the Australian Federal Court dismissed a claim by a multi-national alliance of motion picture and recording industry companies, represented by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), that iiNet, Australia's third-largest internet service provider, had authorised copyright infringement by failing to stop its customers from using the otherwise legitimate BitTorrent file sharing software system to download copyrighted movies

Hollywood v ISP - appeal lodged against iiNet win

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
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  • Australia
  • -
  • February 26 2010

Earlier this month we reported that the Federal Court had dismissed a claim by a multi-national alliance of motion picture and recording industry companies, represented by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), that iiNet, Australia's third-largest internet service provider, had authorised copyright infringement by failing to stop its customers from using the otherwise legitimate BitTorrent file sharing software system to download copyrighted movies

Men at Work go Down (Under) in Kookaburra copyright claim

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
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  • February 24 2010

The Federal Court of Australia has ruled that Men at Work's famous song "Down Under" infringes the copyright in the 1934 children's round "Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree" (Larrikin Music Publishing Pty Ltd v EMI Songs Australia Pty Ltd 2010 FCA 29 (4 February 2010