Displaying items by tag: Copyright

The Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia (IPTA) has warned that recommendations by the Productivity Commission on Intellectual Property Arrangements would significantly weaken the Australian patent system, introduce uncertainty into obtaining and enforcing patent rights, and make the system more expensive for innovators,

The Productivity Commission has called on the Australian Government to make it clear that residents who get around geoblocking to access any kind of material are not in violation of the country's copyright laws.

The high court in Delhi, India, has allowed an university to copy textbooks by major publishers because it says "copyright is not a divine right".

US and other authorities are missing the woods for the trees by not pursuing the biggest violator of copyright on the Internet: Google.

The jury in the Google-Oracle trial has come down on the side of the search engine giant, deciding on Thursday that its use of 37 Java APIs in the Android mobile operating system is covered by fair use.

Oracle chief executive Safra Catz told a trial in California on Monday that the database giant did not buy Sun Microsystems so it could sue Google.

Major entertainment companies and cable operators in the US are pushing for a new video streaming standard whereby they can control the viewing on the Internet of content that they produce.

Australians should be allowed to circumvent geoblocking which imposes restrictions on accessing services like Netflix under current intellectual property laws, the Productivity Commission has recommended.

Oracle wants US$9.3 billion in damages from Google for use of Java code in its Android operating system, according to court filings.

While Netflix made some loud noises in January about geo-blocking Australian users – well any non-US users - from accessing its US catalogue, the storm in the tea-cup appears to have died down. Un-blockers are ready to go more rounds with Netflix.

Internet Australia believes that it is time to accept what it says is “the pointlessness of current strategies" to deal with content ‘piracy’.

What do Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, UAE, Ukraine, and Vietnam have in common? They are all on the US copyright ‘watch list’. Australia is not.

A federal court in the United States has ordered enterprise software vendor Rimini Street pay Oracle about US$50 million in damages for copyright infringement of several Oracle products.

The new Cabinet and ministerial lineup under Prime Minister Turnbull has seen critical unresolved issues affecting the Internet, including site blocking and data retention laws, shifted from the attorney-general’s portfolio to the new Minister for Communications Mitch Fifield.

Internet Australia has called on incoming Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to fast track construction of the National Broadband Network, claiming the Abbott Government failed to understand the importance of the Internet.

The federal government has again been called on to stop the process of implementing an ISP copyright code.  The Internet users rights group Electronic Frontiers Australia has confirmed it wants the process to be halted, with its call coming in the wake of the introduction of new anti-piracy website blocking laws.

A Victorian IT company in breach of copyright law has paid $72,000 in damages for the use of unlicensed software programs owned by Adobe and Microsoft.

Non-profit digital rights group Electronic Frontiers Australia has given qualified support to the government’s announcement it is looking at the benefits that might come from the introduction of a broad, flexible “fair use exception” in Australian copyright law.

The Software Alliance (BSA) has settled seven cases of illegal software usage in Australia so far this year, to the value of $147,000.

Australia has high levels of online copyright infringement, with illegal downloading of movies, music, TV programs and video games continuing unabated despite warnings about the legal consequences of the practice.