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The world wide web of laws entangling social media

  • Hunt & Hunt
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  • Australia
  • -
  • November 2 2011

The nature of communication and the interaction between people is drastically evolving

Internet Industry Association refused leave to participate in the iiNet copyright case

  • Davies Collison Cave
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  • Australia
  • -
  • December 10 2009

The Internet Industry Association ("the IIA") was recently unsuccessful in its application to participate in the copyright infringement case brought against internet service provider iiNet by Roadshow Films and various other members of the film industry

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

  • Norton Rose 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

Internet service provider wins landmark case

  • Hall & Wilcox
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  • Australia
  • -
  • February 4 2010

In a judgement delivered this morning, the Federal Court of Australia has held that an internet service provider is not liable for infringements of copyright committed by its customers

ISP wins against motion picture studios: Roadshow Films Pty Ltd -v- iiNet Limited

  • Davies Collison Cave
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  • Australia
  • -
  • February 4 2010

In a landmark decision, which has been closely watched around the world, Australia's third largest ISP, iiNet, has succeeded against the major motion picture studios in the US and Australia

iiNet and the future of file sharing authorisation and copyright infringement

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia
  • -
  • February 4 2010

The Federal Court has found that iiNet did not authorise any copyright infringement by its users who access BitTorrent systems to download copyright works - film and television programs

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

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • Australia
  • -
  • February 4 2010

Today the 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

Failure of Australian ISP to police illegal file sharing does not amount to the authorising of copyright infringement

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia
  • -
  • February 10 2010

The Federal Court of Australia last week dismissed claims against the country's third-largest ISP for authorising copyright infringement in a claim brought by a group of 34 claimants, including many major Hollywood film studios

Users, not ISPs, liable for copyright infringement after iiNet decision

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
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  • February 4 2010

Today's landmark copyright decision in Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v iiNet Ltd (No. 3) 2010 FCA 24 is a welcome one for internet service providers (ISPs

Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v. iiNet Limited

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
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  • Australia
  • -
  • February 10 2010

In trial that may be the first of its kind in the world, Federal Court of Australia dismisses copyright infringement complaint brought by U.S. and Australian movie studios against an Australian ISP; although the court finds that defendant’s subscribers infringed plaintiffs’ copyrights using BitTorrent technology, it holds that defendant did not authorize such infringement

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