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of Crimes Act in the Watchorn case http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/auckland/news/nbnat/728437944-intellectual-property-law-outdated-

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…

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

The current Australian Government has made it clear it does not intend to introduce a statutory cause of action of serious invasions of privacy. Nevertheless, in a report tabled in…

Here is the news item discussing the first of the two civil lawsuits filed in the US. http://tvnz.co.nz/entertainment-news/movie-studios-bid-sue-kim-dotcom-war-attrition-lawyer-5889723/video