Gurry Lecture by Jeremy Phillips to be streamed live on Nov. 12
The 2014 Francis Gurry Lecture on Intellectual Property, to be delivered by Dr Jeremy Phillips, will be streamed live beginning at 6:15pm (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) on Wednesday 12 November. Access to the stream will be available from here. Dr Phillips will speak on the topic “IP in transition: desperately seeking the Big Picture”. For those wishing ... Read the full post ...
UK court extends ISP site blocking remedy to online trademark infringement
The UK High Court has held that trademark holders may be granted site-blocking injunctions against ISPs, despite the absence of an express provision to that effect in the legislation. Site-blocking injunctions pursuant to s97A CDPA are now well established in relation to online copyright infringement. The judgment in Cartier International and Others vs BSkyB and others ... Read the full post ...
Australian ISPs propose “follow-the-money” strategy against online copyright infringement
In a move claimed to be “a practical example of [their] willingness to help rights holders tackle the infringement problem”, Australian ISPs propose to not advertise their services on websites that promote or facilitate online copyright infringement – the so-called “follow-the-money” strategy. According to the ISP industry body’s media release, the follow-the-money strategy resulted in “an ... Read the full post ...
Jeremy Phillips to paint the ‘Big Picture’ of IP
The 2014 Francis Gurry Lecture on Intellectual Property will be delivered by Dr Jeremy Phillips, on the topic “IP in transition: desperately seeking the Big Picture”. Jeremy Phillips is a Professorial Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London; a consultant to London-based firm Olswang LLP; the founder of a number of highly successful IP magazines and journals, including Managing Intellectual ... Read the full post ...
Rights owners, Internet companies far apart in Australian copyright consultation
Responses to an Australian government proposal for fighting online copyright infringement show a wide gap between rights holders and internet companies on liability and website blocking, reports IP Watch. Read also a précis of the responses of consumers and legal profession in Herbert Smith Freehill’s report. ... Read the full post ...
Invasion of privacy tort proposed for Australia
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has proposed a new statutory tort to deal with invasions of privacy in the digital era. In its Final Report on “Serious Evasions of Privacy in the Digital Era“, the ALRC proposed that the new tort should apply where there has been: a serious intentional or reckless intrusion into seclusion ... Read the full post ...
Internet Governance and Ungovernance Forums channel John Perry Barlow
The “Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace” by John Perry Barlow in the end somehow reconnected the 9th Internet Governance Forum and the new Internet Ungovernance Forum held in Istanbul last week, reports IP Watch. ... Read the full post ...
ISPs wary of Australian proposals for online infringement liability
ISPs are concerned about the breadth of the Australian government’s proposals for extending liability for online copyright infringement. According to the Communications Alliance, the proposals have ”the potential to capture many other entities, including schools, universities, libraries and cloud-based services in ways that may hamper their legitimate activities and disadvantage consumers”. The Pirate Party claims the proposals ... Read the full post ...
Five key takeaways from ICANN’s London meeting
Despite what has been characterized as organized chaos on the ground during ICANN’s London meeting in late June 2014, five topics emerged for brand owners and new generic top-level domain applicants. According to Katten’s report of the meeting, the five key topics were: Geographic Terms Trump Trademarks, According to the Argentina Proposal Conflicts Addressed Between ... Read the full post ...
Overview of .au domain name jurisprudence published
auDA, the authority responsible for the .au domain space, has published an Overview of the jurisprudence of .au domain name decisions. The auDRP Overview 1.0 , authored by well-known domain name panelist Andrew F. Christie, is a compendium of consensus views of panels on key legal and procedural issues. This consensus has been drawn from ... Read the full post ...
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