Village Roadshow using courts to block pirate sites will achieve little
Feb 18, 2016 15:10 pm UTC| Law Technology
Unbowed by the defeat of Voltage Pictures to prosecute illegal movie downloaders, Graham Burke, co-CEO of Village Roadshow Limited, is spearheading a Federal Court action to block Solarmovie.ph, a pirate TV and movie...
Why Apple is making a stand against the FBI
Feb 18, 2016 14:07 pm UTC| Technology Law
Apple has been ordered to help FBI investigators access data on the phone belonging to San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook. The technical solution proposed by the FBI appears to undermine Apples earlier claim that...
Australia can learn from Indonesia’s experience before relaxing its media laws
Feb 18, 2016 04:05 am UTC| Law
Indonesias media landscape may be a model Australia is emulating as it prepares to change its media ownership laws. There are positives to following Indonesias lead, but also reasons for Australians to be...
Incedal terror case shows how little we've learned about press freedom since WWII
Feb 17, 2016 15:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Erol Incedal a law student from London was sentenced in April 2015 to three and a half years in prison after being found guilty of possessing a bomb-making manual. But his trial was held under such tight reporting...
How pay ratios could curb excessive CEO pay and counter inequality
Feb 17, 2016 15:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has earned an eye-popping pay rise. He was awarded US$199m in shares, according to a recent filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. It makes him the highest-paid chief executive in...
UK companies poised to act on forced labour, but Australia lags behind
Feb 17, 2016 07:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
What are we doing to encourage companies to address labour abuses in their supply chains? Theres a flurry of activity in the UK at present as companies and civil society gear up for the supply chain transparency...
Why new anti-lobbying rules leave small charities out in the cold
Feb 16, 2016 15:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Charities will no longer be able to use public money for lobbying activities according to new rules. The anti-advocacy clause in government contracts announced by the Cabinet Office stated that taxpayers money must be...
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