The threatened legal challenge in NZ to "Global Mode" services offering access to overseas content seems to be gathering strength. http://nzh.tw/11429116

Government Introduces Website Blocking Bill | Australian Digital Alliance It is proposed that offshore sites can be blocked if their primary purpose is to infringe or facilitate the infringement of copyright. The…

Comment on discussion at "Right to be Forgotten" seminar - Jock Anderson's Caseload: Wayward briefs an 'insult' to stickler judge - Business - NZ Herald News http://www.nzherald.co.nz/Jock-Anderson/news/article.cfm?a_id=927&objectid=11349332

It is a strange world indeed were the crime of hacking i.e. accessing a computer system in order to get information (see definition below) does not actually cover that specific…

The NZ Court of Appeal has found that hacked computer files are not "property" under S249 of Crimes Act in the Watchorn case http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/auckland/news/nbnat/728437944-intellectual-property-law-outdated-

Blogging QC says bloggers should say who pays Article by Jock Anderson Clive Elliott KC Regarded as an intellectual property law pioneer, Natal-born Clive Elliott KC – recreational gorilla tracker,…

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…

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…

Been arguing about copyright in jeans (the type you wear) this week in the Court of Appeal. Check out the story from the NZ Herald at http://nzh.tw/11314527