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25 Apr 2012, 8:36 am
24 Jun 2012, 10:09 pm
24 Jul 2012, 1:33 am
Following on from yesterday’s post, @davidstarkoff points out that:
the transcript of the special leave application can be found here; and
in due course, the submissions will appear here.
The hearing of the appeal has been fixed for 11 September 2012.
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23 Jul 2012, 1:20 am
Apparently, back on 25 June the High Court granted Google special leave to appeal from the Full Federal Court’s ruling that Google is liable for the misleading ads placed by advertisers.
Maybe the internet will be able to keep working in Australia after all.
Austlii is only up to 20 June, at the time of posting.
Lid dip “Law Geek Down Under“
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14 Jun 2011, 7:52 am
As I outlined here on June 9, 2011, AUCC filed a request to the Copyright Board to amend the interim tariff that was awarded to Access Copyright ("AC") just hours before last Christmas. AUCC is concerned that AC is allegedly now refusing to issue "transactional" licenses, i.e. licenses for one or a limited number of works at a time. This precise point had been foreseen and an appropriate order had been sought by Athabasca University at the time of the submissions on the interim tariff. None of the… [read post]
10 May 2012, 9:07 pm
According to the Age today, a number of (fashion) importers have agreed with their overseas manufacturers that the manufacturers will not supply orders to online purchasers in Australia:
Importers close door on overseas online stores by Rachel Wells.
The Gerry Harvey-esque arguments about how GST makes local retailers uncompetitive get a run again but, as previously noted, Prof. Gans is not convinced by that (in the context of digital downloads).
This announcement seems like particularly good timing… [read post]
15 Apr 2012, 8:39 am
The Full Federal Court in Australia does.
The ACCC has successfully appealed the Google Adwords case for misleading and deceptive conduct.
So, for example, Alpha Dog Trainging has been operating a dogtraining business for 12 years. Dog Training Australia (Ausdog) bought ads on the keywords Alpha Dog Training through Google’s Adwords program. One ad generated was:
Alpha Dog Training
DogTrainingAustralia.com.au All Breeds. We come to you. No dog that can’t be trained.
Instead of being taken… [read post]
5 Feb 2013, 3:50 pm
The High Court has unanimously allowed Google’s appeal from the Full Federal Court’s ruling that Google was liable for misleading or deceptive statements in sponsored links.
According to the Court’s summary (pdf):
The High Court unanimously allowed the appeal. Google did not create the sponsored links that it published or displayed. Ordinary and reasonable users of the Google search engine would have understood that the representations conveyed by the sponsored links were those of… [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 11:21 pm
The Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) is the national, voluntary membership organization created in 1972 to represent colleges and institutes to government, business and industry, both in Canada and internationally. The ACCC has been outspoken on copyright reform and included the following in its comments on the digital lock rules: The digital-locks amendment will, in effect, severely limit how one can access and use digital information. In practice, this would mean that… [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 1:20 am
It has been nearly two months since the Supreme Court of Canada
issued its landmark five copyright decisions. In the aftermath of
those decisions that provided a strong defense of users' rights and
fair dealing, I have written multiple posts on the implications for
education and Access Copyright. These include an analysis
of why the decisions eviscerate the Access Copyright business model,
why the shift away from Access Copyright does not
mean the end of payment for educational copying, and a… [read post]
29 May 2012, 7:31 pm
The Association of Canadian Community Colleges has just struck a deal with Access Copyright. It is similar to the AUCC deal - with one big difference. It’s for $10 per student per year and not $26 as per AUCC and $27.50 as per UofT/UWO. Here’s the model license.So why the difference? AC has suddenly and conveniently determined that “Although we have little data regarding digital copying on campuses, historical coursepack usage data indicates that universities copy 2.6 times more than… [read post]
13 Aug 2012, 5:01 pm
The other shoe has dropped in the Cambridge v. Georgia State(GSU) case, where a lengthy 350 page decision was issued on May 11, 2012. In that decision, the University prevailed in 94 of 99 copyright claims. The Court at that time provided some very useful steps towards the evolution of predictable guidelines that can be used to determine fair use/fair dealing in the context of e-Reserves in the university milieu.On August 10, the Court followed up by declining to issue an injunction for a number… [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 1:38 pm
One Canadian university has just posted the following as part of its "COPYRIGHT GUIDELINES (based on the guidelines set by ACCESS COPYRIGHT)":1. FAIR DEALING (copying not sold in the Bookstore)The Canadian Copyright Act indicates that the copying of a work for the purpose of research, private study, criticism, review, or news reporting is justified as Fair Dealing. This applies to all works and does not require permission from the rights holder. [XXXX] University remits an annual fee (based on FTE)… [read post]
12 Jul 2011, 7:01 pm
fThe University of Northern British Columbia (“UNBC”) hosted an excellent two day conference on June 23 and 24, 2011 of the “ABC” copyright group (Alberta + BC), an informal coalition which comprises various professionals in post secondary institutions whose jobs involve advising on copyright issues. I was honoured to be the keynote speaker. An audio recording of my talk will be posted in due course.Virtually all of the conference was devoted to Access Copyright (“AC”), and its… [read post]
19 Apr 2012, 4:04 pm
As predicted by Sam Trosow and myself, about two months ago, AUCC (Association of Universities and Colleges Canada) has now capitulated to Access Copyright (AC) on the post-secondary Copyright Board case by agreeing to a "model license" that is similar to the disadvantageous deal (from the academic standpoint) signed onto by UofT and Western. Here is the AUCC "model license". Here is the "Limited Time Offer of Discounted Pricing onRetroactive Payments". And, even though this is being called a… [read post]