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End of the road for Roadshow: iiNet did not authorise copyright infringement

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • May 9 2012

On 20 April, the High Court of Australia delivered a long awaited judgment to finally determine the four-year copyright dispute between internet service provider (ISP) iiNet, and 34 Australian and United States movie studios

NRL and AFL victorious on appeal: Optus TV now found to infringe copyright

  • Davies Collison Cave
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  • Australia
  • -
  • April 27 2012

The Federal Court of Australia has this morning handed down an eagerly awaited judgment concerning Optus’ cloud-based recording service, TV Now

ISPs propose “5 strikes and you’re warned” infringement policy; copyright owners unsatisfied

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • December 5 2011

An alliance of ISPs has proposed a self-regulated scheme to warn infringing users about the potential consequences of their activities

Roadshow v iiNet: landmark copyright infringement authorisation case set for High Court

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • September 8 2011

The Australian High Court has granted special leave to Roadshow Films and other members of the Australian Federation against Copyright Theft (AFACT) to appeal the decision of the Full Federal Court handed down in February this year, in the long-running copyright dispute with Australian internet service provider iiNet

Google faces French copyright fine for not removing infringing videos

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • March 24 2011

Less than two weeks after Attorney-General Robert McLelland flagged the expansion of Australia's safe-harbour protections to include user-generated content distributors such as Google and Yahoo!, a Paris appeals court has found that Google infringed the copyrights of three documentary producers and an unidentified photographer, despite the availability of a similar 'mere conduit' defence under the European Directive on Electronic Commerce