Two significant copyright cases are being fought through Australia’s courts right now — both now heading for the High Court.
One relates to the applicability of copyright to databases, with Telstra arguing that their Yelow and White Pages should be subject to copyright protection. The other is between AFACT, representing movie studios, and internet service provider iiNet. AFACT argues that iiNet has not done enough to prevent copyright contravention on its network.
In today’s programme I talk to the Honorable Dr Kevin Edmund Lindgren, who was a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia for 16 years, retiring last year. He was also President of the Copyright Tribunal of Australia from 2000 to 2007. I caught up with him last week at a Lexis Nexis celebration of 100 years of legal publishing in Australia.
He discusses the issues around these cases and I ask whether we can expect a law designed in the sixties to still be applicable in an Internet influenced world?
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Goldilocks is on her own
Glossy employment numbers from the US. I ask NAB’s Ray Attrill whether they are enjoying a Goldilocks economy right now. Plus, an important week for Aussie news.
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Russia turns off gas for Poland and Bulgaria
Russia turns off gas to Poland and Bulgaria. NABs Ray Attrill says markets were already n the doldrums over recession fears. Today’s CPI numbers will be watched closely by the RBA ahead of next week’s meeting.
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Cuts out of context
It’s as though Fed’s John Williams didn’t say anything on Thursday. NAB’s Rodrigo Catril on how the expectation now is back to a 25 basis point cut from the Fed next week.
