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Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy
In New Zealand the Ministry of Economic Development (MED) is considering issues relating to the enforcement of the criminal provisions contained in the Trade Marks Act 2002 and the Copyright…
Copyright Law: Update on Recent Practical Developments – 2007
Paper given to the Auckland District Law Society in August 2007 1. The purpose of this paper is to update practitioners on recent developments in the copyright law area. I…
Interception and Monitoring of Emails
The issue of interception was graphically illustrated in a recent High Court decision in S P Bates & Associates Ltd v Woolworths (NZ) Ltd (HC Auckland, CL 15/02, 13 March 2003,…
UDRP – Type Procedure For Domain Name Disputes
The Internet Society of New Zealand (ISOCNZ) is setting up a working group to consider the question of whether New Zealand should adopt a UDRP-type arrangement to resolve New Zealand…
Domain Names
The courts in New Zealand have been willing to uphold rights in domain names and to require cybersquatters to either cancel their registered domain names or to hand them over…
Tracking and Sniffing
Internet technology has spawned a plethora of devices and software for identifying, tracking, collating and retrieving information, often including personal information. The most common of these are rather endearingly referred…
Harmonisation: Issues for a Small South Pacific Nation – Feb. 2006
Background As Owen Morgan notes in his paper, when it comes to small South Pacific nations, they have little room to move in the harmonisation environment. Furthermore, given the trend…
Computer Crimes
Through a Supplementary Order Paper dated November 7 2000, an amendment to the Crimes Act was proposed through the Crimes Amendment Bill (No 6). The purpose of the Supplementary Order…
Internet Specific Issues
1.INTRODUCTION The aim of this paper is to give practitioners a brief overview of some of the more important recent developments in relation the internet, identifying only some of the…
