In Authors Guild v Google - US Court of Appeals - Second Circuit - October 16, 2015 the appellants argued that Google’s digital copying amounted to the reproduction of entire…

Just finished reading George Victor - The Pearl Harbor myth : rethinking the unthinkable I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, having returned to Pearl Harbour after over 30 years. Seeing…

The recent decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa in Director of Public Prosecutions, Gauteng v Pistorius (96/2015) [2015] ZASCA 204 (3 December 2015) makes interesting reading.…

Have just received the Court of Appeal judgment in the long-running Batts case: http://www.nzlii.org/nz/cases/NZCA/2015/602.html The Court upheld the High Court that the term "batts" had not become a common name in…

The Court of Appeal has upheld the High Court's finding that the term "batts" had not become a common name in general public use. See http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11562097 However, it confirmed that the…

Kim Dotcom found by District Court in Auckland to be eligible for extradition to US for alleged copyright charges http://nzh.tw/11565399 An appeal to the High Court is inevitable

An emerging issue today is the tension between the purported right to be forgotten and the arguably more important right to be known and remembered Judge Harvey and I will be…

The current Australian Government has made it clear it does not intend to introduce a statutory cause of action of serious invasions of privacy. Nevertheless, in a report tabled in…

The suggestion by the NZLS that the once obsolete fax machine is likely to experience a comeback might surprise some - see https://gallery.mailchimp.com/636c7d0c620118e83f54c9764/files/Faxes_may_make_comeback_with_lawyers_AAP_NZ_Newswire_30_Sep_2014.pdf The rethink is evidently due to the…