There are a few interesting posts around the place today, so I thought I’d just do a round up: HeathG at Minimal State wonders if GetUp! will get into trouble with copyright law as a result of its political satire video (which lends from various Hollywood blockbusters). I hope not, the video is rather funny, [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in General, Intellectual property, Law, Politics, Society
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Tagged copyright, copyright law, Immigration, Law, lawyers, link round-up, people smugglers, psychic octopus
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“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax– Of cabbages–and kings– And why the sea is boiling hot– And whether pigs have wings.” (Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter) Well, I doubt that it’s much of a secret. I know that many of my fellow bloggers [...]
see more dog and puppy pictures A quick apology from DEM and me for failing to appear on the blog this weekend, when it was rather busy and a wee bit fractious. DEM has been laid low with the most impressive case of food poisoning I’ve seen in a while, and since I’m in Edinburgh [...]
I laughed so hard I cried at this one: a blog devoted to Awful Library Books. Basically, the authors find library books which are seriously out of date and need to be chucked out of the library, then write a post on said book, accompanied with excerpts and pictures of the book. Gems include: Out [...]
March 11, 2010 – 12:19 am
… Many thanks to the people who were kind enough to tell us it was busted, as we would never have found out otherwise. We’re not in the habit of checking. With any sort of luck it is now clever enough to spot whether you are in Australia or the UK (where most of our [...]
Some of the people who write this blog are actually organised. I, alas, am not one of them. Unbeknown to me, this blog was prominently featured in this week’s issue of leading trade magazine Lawyers’ Weekly. The article discusses several sites across Ozblawgistan, including Stephen Warne’s professional negligence blog (you’ll notice he’s featured on LE’s [...]
February 22, 2010 – 2:30 am
Iran’s supreme leader has denied it is developing nuclear weapons, after a new report from the UN atomic watchdog, the IAEA, sparked an international outcry. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said any fears were “baseless” as Iranians’ beliefs “bar us from using such weapons”. The blunt report raised concerns Iran was working on nuclear weapons. Russia said [...]
January 15, 2010 – 6:08 pm
Richard Ackland has an interesting piece in the SMH on the laws protecting journalists versus the laws protecting bloggers, with some thoughts about the blurred line between journalism and blogging as well. He says: Justice William Gummow of the High Court asked the question last year during an appeal in Ray Chesterton’s defamation action against [...]
December 15, 2009 – 8:40 pm
Here at Skepticlawyer we’re shocked to see that the wowsers have apparently won the battle over compulsory internet censorship. The Age reports: The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist of banned sites was accurate and would not slow down the [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Free Speech, Human/Civil rights, Internet, Law, Media, Personal liberty, Politics, Public Policy, Society
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Tagged freedom of speech, ISP filtering, Senator Conroy
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October 29, 2009 – 10:13 am
I’m not recovering from pneumonia as well as I ought to be, and thus I’m going to take a break from everything for a week or two. See you in a week (hopefully I’ll feel much better then). If you want something interesting to read in the meantime, have a look at this article from [...]
