A Sydney karaoke lounge is singing the blues after Federal Magistrate Raphael ordered on 11 February 2010 that it pay additional damages for infringing copyright in certain song films. 

The Adventures of Willy the Wizard No 1: Livid Land, is apparently a small book, under 40 pages long.

Nintendo has settled its Federal Court action against 24 year-old Brisbane gamer James Burt for illegally copying and uploading to the internet Nintendo’s new video game “Super Mario Bros Wii” one week ahead of its official Australian release in November 2009. 

In a case bearing similarities to the 2002 Full Federal Court decision of Desktop Marketing Systems v Telstra, which upheld Telstra’s copyright in White Pages® and Yellow Pages® directories, a single judge of the Federal Court has now found against Telstra and Sensis in proceedings brought against a company called Phone Directories Company Pty Ltd (PDC).