Our new flag flying over the summer break?  

Kim Dotcom found by District Court in Auckland to be eligible for extradition to US for alleged copyright charges http://nzh.tw/11565399 An appeal to the High Court is inevitable

Have just received the Court of Appeal judgment in the long-running Batts case: http://www.nzlii.org/nz/cases/NZCA/2015/602.html The Court upheld the High Court that the term "batts" had not become a common name in…

The Court of Appeal has upheld the High Court's finding that the term "batts" had not become a common name in general public use. See http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11562097 However, it confirmed that the…

The recent decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa in Director of Public Prosecutions, Gauteng v Pistorius (96/2015) [2015] ZASCA 204 (3 December 2015) makes interesting reading.…

Just finished reading George Victor - The Pearl Harbor myth : rethinking the unthinkable I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, having returned to Pearl Harbour after over 30 years. Seeing…

Jesse Graham's lawsuit against Taylor Swift has been thrown out by a US court. Graham alleged that Swift's hit Shake It Off copied his distinctive lyrics, the melodies being entirely…

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…

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…