ICANN demands compliance by cyberflight-permitting registrar
ICANN has sent a notice of non-compliance to a registrar, Visesh Infotecnics Ltd. d/b/a Signdomains.com, for failure to comply with new rules designed to prevent so-called “cyberflight”, reports Dorsey & Whitney. ... Read the full post ...
Website blocking orders sought against 50 Australian ISPs
An Australian court has been requested to order 50 ISPs to block access to foreign websites providing infringing copies of films. The action is the first to be brought under the new s115A of the Copyright Act, which provides that a copyright owner may apply to the Federal Court for an injunction requiring ISPs to block access ... Read the full post ...
Dallas Buyers Club drops Australian copyright piracy case
The Hollywood studio behind the US film Dallas Buyers Club is no longer pursuing its piracy case against Australians accused of illegally downloading the movie, reports BBC News and SMH. ... Read the full post ...
Google liable in Australia for defamation as a publisher and a re-publisher
An Australian court has ordered Google to pay $100,000 damages for defamatory material indexed by its search engine. In Duffy v. Google Inc, the Supreme Court of South Australia found that Google was liable for defamation as a primary publisher of both automatically-generated search result “snippets” and of auto-complete search suggestions, but only after it had ... Read the full post ...
US Appeals Court holds Google book digitisation to be fair use
The Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit has ruled that Google’s book digitisation project is sufficiently transformative to qualify as a non-infringing fair use of copyright material. The decision follows a decade of litigation by the Authors’ Guild, acting on behalf of authors as a class. The Authors Guild claimed that the copying involved in the ... Read the full post ...
7th Francis Gurry Lecture by Justice Birss to be streamed live
The 7th Francis Gurry Lecture, to be delivered by The Hon. Mr Justice Birss, on the topic “To boldy reform IP dispute resolution: Experience in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, will be streamed live on 2 September 2015, at 18:15 Melbourne time, here. ... Read the full post ...
Justice Birss to present 2015 Francis Gurry Lecture in Sydney and Melbourne
The Honourable Mr Justice Birss, judge of the High Court of England and Wales, will present the 2015 Francis Gurry Lecture on Intellectual Property, in Sydney on 31 August and in Melbourne on 2 September. Justice Birss will speak on the topic “To boldly reform IP dispute resolution - Experience in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court”. Between ... Read the full post ...
auDA Policy Panel recommends direct registration in .au
A policy panel appointed by auDA, the regulatory authority for the .au domain space, has proposed opening the space to direct registrations – e.g. myname.au. The proposal is contained in a set of Draft Recommendations, released on 19 August for public consultation. The public have until 30 September to comment on the proposals, either by ... Read the full post ...
IANA transition will miss September 2015 deadline
The US government has confirmed that the process of transitioning IANA responsibilty will extend well beyond the target of September of this year, IP Watch reports. ... Read the full post ...
Gaping loophole in new Australian anti-piracy law
Experts agree that the Australian government’s latest attempt to crack down on illegal downloads of movies, music and TV shows has a gaping loophole. Attempts to block access to infringing websites under the new site-blocking legislation will be easily avoided, using either proxy servers or virtual private networks, The New Daily reports. ... Read the full post ...
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