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	<title>Andrew Christie</title>
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	<description>Intellectual Property Lawyer and Consultant</description>
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		<title>Divisions over future of Internet governance arise at WSIS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 05:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Governance of Cyberspace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Concerns were expressed at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2012 about the reluctance of the UN to hire an executive secretary for the Internet Governance Forum, the reluctance of the ITU to allow the global public to see and contribute to the coming International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR), and the need for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Optus to appeal &#8216;TV Now&#8217; copyright infringement finding</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 03:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copyright in Cyberspace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Optus has announced that it will seek leave from the High Court of Australia to appeal the recent Full Court of the Federal Court decision that its cloud-based &#8216;TV Now&#8217; service infringes copyright. Optus has no automatic entitlement to have the High Court hear an appeal. It must seek the consent of the High Court, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual pet owners sue Google over lost virtual gold</title>
		<link>http://achristie.com/virtual-pet-owners-sue-google-over-lost-virtual-gold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 03:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Virtual Worlds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The owners of virtual pets in the online world &#8220;SuperPoke! Pets&#8221; have brought a class action against the game&#8217;s owner, Google, for eliminating the &#8220;gold&#8221; balances in their accounts when the game was closed. The players spent virtual gold to buy virtual items for their virtual pets. The virtual gold was purchased with real money. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US House passes 4 Cybersecurity Bills during &#8220;Cyber Week&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://achristie.com/us-house-passes-4-cybersecurity-bills-during-cyber-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 02:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cybersecurity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a slate of four cybersecurity Bills as part of &#8220;Cyber Week&#8221;.  The main effects of these Bills are : to provide positive authority to private-sector entities to defend their own networks and to those of their customers, and to share cyber threat information with others in the private [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UDRP transfer can be overturned under ACPA due to misleading evidence</title>
		<link>http://achristie.com/udrp-transfer-can-be-overturned-under-acpa-due-to-misleading-evidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 05:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domain Names]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has recognised that a domain name transfer achieved though a successful action under the UDRP can be overturned under the ACPA where the evidence in the UDRP action was misleading. In ISystems v. Spark Networks, the plaintiff sought to overturn a UDRP decision in which its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK &#8216;three-strikes&#8217; copyright piracy law put on hold</title>
		<link>http://achristie.com/uk-three-strikes-copyright-piracy-law-put-on-hold/</link>
		<comments>http://achristie.com/uk-three-strikes-copyright-piracy-law-put-on-hold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copyright in Cyberspace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The introduction of the UK&#8217;s controversial graduate response &#8211; &#8216;three-strikes and you&#8217;re disconnected&#8217; &#8211; process for dealing with online copyright infringement has been delayed for two years. Despite the recent failure of a court challenge by ISPs to the Digital Economy Act&#8216;s provisions on notifying infringing customers, the BBC reports that the UK government has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Optus cloud-based TV recording service found infringing on appeal</title>
		<link>http://achristie.com/optus-cloud-based-tv-recording-service-found-infringing-on-appeal/</link>
		<comments>http://achristie.com/optus-cloud-based-tv-recording-service-found-infringing-on-appeal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copyright in Cyberspace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia has ruled that the Optus &#8216;TV Now&#8217; cloud-based recording service infringes copyright. In National Rugby League Investments Pty Limited v Singtel Optus Pty Ltd, the Full Court upheld the appeal against the first instance decision, which had found that a recording of a TV show using a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook posting of nude photos of ex-lover results in jail sentence</title>
		<link>http://achristie.com/facebook-posting-of-nude-photos-of-ex-lover-results-in-jail-sentence/</link>
		<comments>http://achristie.com/facebook-posting-of-nude-photos-of-ex-lover-results-in-jail-sentence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Privacy in Cyberspace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An Australian man has been sentenced to six months jail for an act of revenge that involved posting nude photos of his ex-lover on Facebook. According to the SMH report, the man pleaded guilty to &#8220;publishing an indecent article&#8221;, but appealed the severity of his sentence.  The sentence was confirmed on appeal, but made suspended. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australian ISP not liable for customers&#8217; BitTorrent copyright infringements</title>
		<link>http://achristie.com/australian-isp-not-liable-for-customers-bittorrent-copyright-infringements/</link>
		<comments>http://achristie.com/australian-isp-not-liable-for-customers-bittorrent-copyright-infringements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copyright in Cyberspace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian High Court has ruled in favour of an ISP which failed to terminate access to the Internet for those of its customers engaged in copyright infringement using the BitTorrent protocol. In Roadshow Films v iiNet, various owners of copyright in films sued the ISP on the basis that it &#8220;authorized&#8221; the copyright infringements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s AdWords links &#8220;misleading and deceptive&#8221;, says Australian court</title>
		<link>http://achristie.com/googles-adwords-links-misleading-and-deceptive-says-australian-court/</link>
		<comments>http://achristie.com/googles-adwords-links-misleading-and-deceptive-says-australian-court/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trade Marks in Cyberspace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An Australian court has found Google guilty of misleading and deceiving consumers with its AdWords-generated sponsored links. Google&#8217;s AdWords program inserts &#8220;sponsored links&#8221; to advertisers in the results of Google web searches.  The content of a sponsored link is determined by the search term entered by the searcher.  Advertisers select the search terms (keywords) in [...]]]></description>
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