Right to resell digital content proposed for Australia
An Australian parliamentary review has proposed ‘a right of resale’ for digitally distributed content. The ‘right of resale’ would allow consumers to sell no-longer-wanted music, films, software and books that were purchased in digital format. The proposal, which is contained in the report on IT pricing released late July, has been slammed by the music ... Read the full post ...
No ‘right to be forgotten’ says CJEU AG
The Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU has concluded there is no ‘right to be forgotten’ under the present EU law. According to the AG’s opinion in the ‘Spanish Google case’, the right does not exist in the present EU Data Protection Directive. The final decision of the CJEU is awaited before the ... Read the full post ...
Australia to review privacy again, this time in digital era
The Australian Attorney-General has requested the Australian Law Reform Commission to inquire into protection of privacy in the digital era. One of the matters for review, specified by the Terms of Reference, is “the detailed legal design of a statutory cause of action for serious invasions of privacy”. An earlier review by the ALRC in ... Read the full post ...
WIPO DG to speak on re-thinking the role of IP
Dr Francis Gurry, Director General of WIPO, will deliver a public address on ‘Re-thinking the Role of Intellectual Property’ in late August. The free public lecture, hosted jointly by the Melbourne Law School and the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia, will be held in Sydney on 21 August and in Melbourne 22 August. ... Read the full post ...
Key topics to follow during ICANN 47
See this Katten alert for a good summary of key issues for the Durban meeting of ICANN 47, including both developments in the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) program and discussions of Internet policy processes. ... Read the full post ...
GAC advises ICANN to reject .amazon gTLD bid
US online retailer Amazon’s quest for their own top level domain, .amazon, might be doomed after the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the ICANN agreed it should be rejected. IP Watch reports that representatives of Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Chile proposed that the GAC “advise” the ICANN Board to reject the application from the US ... Read the full post ...
Church leaders sue NSA over ‘unconstitutional’ phone surveillance
Church leaders, gun ownership advocates and other rights activists have filed a lawsuit against the US National Security Agency, claiming its surveillance programme is unconstitutional, reports IP Watch. ... Read the full post ...
US advertisers adopt best practices for online infringement
Several United States-based advertising networks have announced a set of best practices to address online infringement by reducing ad revenue to websites engaged in piracy and counterfeiting, reports IP Watch. ... Read the full post ...
France abolishes three-strikes Internet disconnection
The French Government has backtracked on the law which allowed repeat copyright infringers to be disconnected from the Internet. A review by a nine-member panel on policies for French entertainment industries in the digital age concluded that the three-strikes mechanism had failed to benefit authorized services as promised. It recommended that the ultimate sanction of Internet disconnections for ... Read the full post ...
NZ court adopts ‘noticeboard’ reasoning on social media defamation
A New Zealand judge has adopted the Tamiz v. Google ‘noticeboard’ analogy for the hosts of blogging platforms when considering the liability of Facebook page hosts as publishers of third party content Courtney J in Wishart v Murray held that the host of a Facebook page has the power to both delete postings and block users, and ... Read the full post ...
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