The End of Anonymity Online!
Does the requirement to now use your real name on services like Facebook signal the end of the ability to hide behind anonymity and to be more accountable for what we say online? Some commentators say yes and none to soon – http://tvnz.co.nz/technology-news/websites-try-fight-nasty-comments-anonymity-5787035
Review of Copyright Law – Well Overdue
One of the difficulties lawmakers have is keeping the law up-to-date. This is particularly difficult in the Internet era where developments continue to outstrip the law. Copyright law lies smack bang in the middle of the debate. Here are a few musings on the topic. Mid last year Susan Chalmers, the then Policy Lead at […]
Mega Upload Civil Suit Filed in US
Kim Dotcom’s legal worries don’t seem to be over. See my comments on TVNZ news re the first of two civil lawsuits in the US. ONE News Tuesday | ONE News at 6pm http://tvnz.co.nz/one-news/s2014-eptuesday-video-5890670?ref=emailfriend
Dotcom News Item
Here is the news item discussing the first of the two civil lawsuits filed in the US. http://tvnz.co.nz/entertainment-news/movie-studios-bid-sue-kim-dotcom-war-attrition-lawyer-5889723/video
New Mega API
My interview on TVNZ last night regarding the new Mega API: http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/kim-dotcom-launches-new-website-video-5322502
New Zealand Law Soc Media Release – legality of Mega website
Specific knowledge important in considering legality of Mega website The new Mega website fronted by Kim Dotcom appears to have been set up to ensure that Mega does not have specific knowledge of the information which is being stored or shared, intellectual property lawyer Clive Elliott says. Mr Elliott, who is convenor of the New […]
Software Patents – Really that Bad?
There have recently been a couple of articles in the Herald on the proposal to allow software patents as part of the government’s overhaul of the Patents Act – see Pat Pilcher: “Software patents stoush rolls on” http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10865580 I would like to comment briefly on a couple of observations he makes and present a slightly […]
Time’s up for cyber bullies
Here is the government’s press release on its proposed new cyber-bullying bill as discussed by me today (4 April 2013) on Radio New Zealand. Time’s up for cyber bullies Justice Minister Judith Collins has announced a raft of new proposals to hold cyber bullies to account for their bullying and harmful online behaviour. “I am […]
Software Inventions in New Zealand
On 14 May 2013 the Government introduced a supplementary order paper which proposed further amendments to the its controversial computer program exclusion, forming part of the Patents Bill. The exclusion is of a computer program per se – with an attempt to define what that means. The two most relevant clauses are: Clause 10A (3): […]
IP LAW UPDATE 2005
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN IP LAW This paper was written for the Auckland District Law Society and presented to its members in October 2005 1.INTRODUCTION The aim of this paper is to give practitioners an overview of some of the more important recent developments in intellectual property (IP) law in New Zealand. The focus is on […]