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Boeing Visit

While at the recent INTA meeting in Seattle I visited the Boeing factory. It's the largest building by volume in the world and employs 35,000 employees at the plant per…

Should authorship equate to purely human effort?

Following on from my previous post on Naruto's case, it's interesting that in the appeals court and the District Court for the Northern District of California (Naruto v. Slater, 15-cv-04324-WHO…

Monkeys Have No (Copy) Rights!

The 9th Circuit Appeals Court in the US has denied PETA's standing to represent the famous selfie monkey Naruto. Even though Naruto is undoubtably smart and very photogenic, in rejecting…

No Copyright in Chorus Line

Taylor Swift is back in the news. This time for the wrong reasons - it is alleged she lifted key words from the lyrics of another song and thereby infringed…

Search and Surveillance Review

The Search and Surveillance Act 2012 controls how government agencies, including the Police, search people or property and how they use various surveillance technology and devices. Even though the legislation…

Churchill’s Darkest Hour?

With the new film Darkest Hour about to hit the screens in New Zealand, the focus seems to be on Churchill’s flaws, as opposed to his many achievements. Paul Mason…

NZ Law Awards 2017

At the Zone Law table - finalists for IP Specialist Firm of the Year

Lawyers Replaced by Computers? Not quite yet…

I enjoyed participating in the debate yesterday at LawFest 2017 https://lawfest.nz/SessionsPage/the-annual-lawfest-debate/ Graham Kohler QC and I argued against the entirely misconceived proposition: “That legal perfection will be achieved when lawyers…

Hyperlinks May Infringe Copyright

The Court of Justice of the European Union has cast doubt on the relatively orthodox view that a hyperlink on a website that links to copyrighted material does not constitute an…