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Google Books Project = Fair Use

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…

Digital Information is “Property” after all

In a welcome development the New Zealand Supreme Court had just confirmed in Dixon v R (SC 82/2014) [2015] NZSC 147 that digital information is "property": see http://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/front-page/cases/jonathan-dixon-v-r-1 Putting the…

Recent Law Talk Interview – Stepping down as Convenor of IP Law Committee

New Zealand Law Society LawTalk 875  · 9 October 2015 Very good work over the years C L I V E   EL L I O TT The Law Society's Intellectual…

Privacy Now on Tap 

Now on Tap raises privacy issues in my view as users are able to access info on the Web and in apps far quicker and seemlesly http://www.wired.com/2015/08/microsoft-bing-api-google-now-on-tap/?mbid=social_twitter

Inflating the Price of Justice – Hardly!

The editorial in the Australian Financial Review on 27 May 2015 "Why QCs inflate the price of justice" suggests that a labour cartel of advocates has rigged the market for…

Recent Interview

Recent interview on New Zealand Law Society website http://my.lawsociety.org.nz/branches/auckland/news/clive-elliott,-qc,-a-barrister,-registered-patent-attorney,-arbitrator-and-artist,-is-interviewed-by-nzls-ayl-committee-member,-sarah-rosanowski

Privacy and the Public Domain

Looking forward to the IT and Online Law Conference – 7 May, The Langham, Auckland. Speaking on “The right to keep facts private and control them once made public” with…