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Laurie Patton. Pirates of Perchance: How “site-blocking” could force up Internet fees but do little else
Last week both Village Roadshow and Foxtel finally launched court actions under the eight months old Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Act designed to deal with Internet “piracy”. The first thing that needs pointing out is that downloading video and audio content … Continue reading
Posted in Arts and Reviews, Media, Politics
Tagged Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Act, intellectual property rights, Internet Australia, Laurie Patton, unlawful downloading
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John Quiggin. The Trans-Pacific partnership: it might be about trade, but it’s far from free.
There can be few topics as eye-glazingly dull as international trade agreements. Endless hours of negotiation on such arcane topics as rules of origin and most favoured nation status combine with an alphabet soup of acronyms to produce a barely … Continue reading
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Tagged Inside story, intellectual property rights, investor-state dispute provisions, John Quiggin, Trans-Pacific partnership
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