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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…
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…
Form Over Function – A Review of Recent Developments In Designs Law
Designs law has always struggled to reconcile competing interests and find the right balance between protecting form and/or function. The purpose of this paper is to consider the true philosophical…
Electronic Transactions Bill
The bill is intended to advance the goal of facilitating the use of modern technology and to take advantage of the knowledge economy. It contains provisions intended to facilitate these…
Dealing in Pirated DVDs
One of the key concerns in the entertainment industries is the ease by which films, music, computer games and all other manner of modern day content can be copied and…
