“The tax office is well known but Madonna is famous”
25 October 2010
But of course…everyone knows that Madonna is famous but why is it important that she is famous as distinct from being well known?
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UK Councillor under fire
18 October 2010
A UK Councillor has recently come under fire for posting extracts of the Brighton & Hove City Council meetings on his personal website and on YouTube.
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Willy the Wizard: The initial verdict is in!
15 October 2010
Many of our readers will be familiar with the Willy the Wizard case, having read our previous posts here, here and here.
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Twitter impersonation…an IP Whiteboard investigation
14 October 2010
The recent impersonation of Brisbane’s Lord Mayor, Campbell Newman on Twitter, is a timely reminder of the substantial scope that exists for people to be impersonated online.
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Suffering for your cover art
13 October 2010
Dido, the British chanteuse best known for singing about cold tea on an Eminem track back in 2000, has been sued by former NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless – the first astronaut to make an untied or untethered free flight in space – for using his 1984 space flight picture for the cover of her 2008 album “Safe Trip Home”.
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The mobile patent battleground in boxes and arrows
12 October 2010
For those that, like me, like to see things in boxes and arrows, the Guardian Technology Blog has put together a fantastic diagram that summarises the various patent infringement claims that the big players in mobile technology are making against each other.
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Music downloads not public performances
8 October 2010
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has upheld a district court finding that a download of a musical work does not constitute a public performance of that work, and consequently copyright owners should not be additionally and separately compensated for downloads of their music.
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You say potato, I say perpetual, irrevocable and transferable licence
6 October 2010
There has been a fair bit of recent comment in the blogosphere about Vernor v Autodesk, a case decided by the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in September (the 9th Circuit covers California and Washington State, which means that it often deals with technology-related cases).
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Changes to practice at the Australian Patent Office
6 October 2010
Following 18 months of extensive consultations on potential reforms of the patent system, IP Australia has recently implemented a number of changes to examination practices intended to improve the quality of examination and the certainty in the validity of granted patent rights.
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Employed or not employed…that is the question.
4 October 2010
The courts have again been asked to determine a person’s employment status and the scope of their employment for the purposes of a copyright dispute.
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