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		<title>Twentieth Century Fox v BT (the Newzbin2 website blocking decision)</title>
		<link>http://www.lawfont.com/2011/08/01/twentieth-century-fox-v-bt-the-newzbin2-website-blocking-decision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last week Justice Arnold in the UK High Court issued his judgment in Twentieth Century Fox v BT [2011] EWHC 1981 &#8211; ordering BT to block access to a website, Newzbin2 (www.newzbin.com), that was held in an earlier case to be infringing copyright on a large scale. Rick Shera and Lilian Edwards already have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Convergence review invites submissions</title>
		<link>http://www.lawfont.com/2011/04/28/convergence-review-invites-submissions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 02:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian government&#8217;s Convergence Review Committee has released a Framing Paper and invited public submissions on what principles should guide the review over the next year. The principles currently proposed span across broadcasting, telecommunications, and radiocommunication issues (although the bias is towards broadcasting content issues): 1. Australians should have access to a diversity of voices, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IP Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Bill &#8211; the whole kit and caboodle all in one exciting bill</title>
		<link>http://www.lawfont.com/2011/04/01/1013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At an IP Academics’ conference in early February, I remember Professor Di Nicol asking, rhetorically, ‘where has all the patent reform gone?’. Di pointed out that we’d had any number of ACIP Reports, ALRC Reports (like that on Gene Patenting), and IP Australia Discussion Papers, all with no actual legislation resulting. No more, it seems. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on the TPPA IP proposal &#8211; aarrgghh even for an AUSFTA-burdened Australia</title>
		<link>http://www.lawfont.com/2011/03/16/more-on-the-tppa-ip-proposal-aarrgghh-even-for-an-ausfta-burdened-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The TPPA &#8211; for which the US IP proposals were leaked last week &#8211; is earning a little more attention: Crikey had a good short article yesterday by Bernard Keane (subscriber only, free trial), Rick Shera in NZ has been tweeting and has given an interview; Techdirt has an article; Michael Geist has offered up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IP Australia &#8211; raising the bar?</title>
		<link>http://www.lawfont.com/2011/03/03/ip-australia-raising-the-bar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IP Australia has released the IP Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Bill for public consultation. It&#8217;s huge: it covers patentability standards, a patent research exception; enforcement; oppositions &#8211; you name it, it&#8217;s in there. Written submissions due by 14 April 2011. More thoughts to come&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>A few thoughts on iiNet FFC decision</title>
		<link>http://www.lawfont.com/2011/03/02/a-few-thoughts-on-iinet-ffc-decision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, all the copyright nerds in the world know the headlines: the Full Federal Court has handed down its decision in the iiNet case; that the appeal was dismissed in a 2:1 decision (Emmett and Nicholas JJ; Jagot J dissenting). Most people also will know that the reasoning is very, very different from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Convergence review terms of reference announced</title>
		<link>http://www.lawfont.com/2011/03/02/convergence-review-terms-of-reference-announced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final terms of reference for the upcoming Convergence Review to be conducted by the Australian government have been announced, following on the draft terms of reference provided for public comment in December. At the Australian Broadcasting Summit this morning, Senator Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Ditital Economy, noted that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building the case for fair use in Australia &#8211; one specific exception at a time</title>
		<link>http://www.lawfont.com/2011/03/01/building-the-case-for-fair-use-in-australia-one-specific-exception-at-a-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 05:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I noted the other day that the Attorney-General had set out the upcoming copyright reform agenda. And then an email alert crossed my desk &#8211; an actual copyright reform, in a dedicated Bill. Australia is to get a new copyright exception! Specifically, we are to get new s 44BA, for &#8216;acts done in relation to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorney-General announces Australia&#8217;s Copyright Agenda</title>
		<link>http://www.lawfont.com/2011/02/25/attorney-general-announces-australias-copyright-agenda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawfont.com/2011/02/25/attorney-general-announces-australias-copyright-agenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 06:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, at a (invitation only) conference in Sydney, Australia&#8217;s Attorney-General Robert McClelland announced Australia&#8217;s copyright reform agenda for the next little while. I wasn&#8217;t there, but a transcript of the speech is here. In short, the agenda is this: On the issues in iinet, the AG believes that &#8216;an industry dialogue on this issue is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australian Digital Alliance to hold a forum on copyright law</title>
		<link>http://www.lawfont.com/2011/01/25/australian-digital-alliance-to-hold-a-forum-on-copyright-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawfont.com/2011/01/25/australian-digital-alliance-to-hold-a-forum-on-copyright-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Digital Alliance will be holding a policy forum, titled &#8220;Righting the Copyright Balance&#8221;, on 4 March 2011 in Canberra. The full-day event looks to be a very interesting one, with sessions focusing on areas where Australian copyright law is thought to be most imbalanced between the rights of creators and users of copyright [...]]]></description>
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