by Lucy Selmes | Oct 8, 2023 | Arts/Lifestyle/Culture, Feature
In October 2019 the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle launched a lawsuit against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) the parent company of the UK’s Mail on Sunday, for allegedly misusing her private information and breaching copyright laws. Markle wrote a letter...
by Sean Goh | Oct 8, 2023 | Arts/Lifestyle/Culture, Feature
The film “Avatar” is the highest-grossing movie of all time, grossing a whopping $2.9 billion US dollars (almost 4.5 billion AUD) at the international box office. Written and directed by famed director James Cameron, the film went on to receive numerous other...
by Corey Mcdermott | Oct 8, 2023 | Feature, News
In the case of Greenpeace v AGL Energy [2021] the Federal Court of Australia addressed copyright and trademark infringement issues arising from Greenpeace’s media campaign against AGL. Greenpeace launched a campaign that employed a modified version of AGL’s logo and...
by Matthew Starr | May 8, 2019 | Arts/Lifestyle/Culture, News
In the wake of Foxtel’s warning to a Balmain pub over its public screenings of HBO’s Game of Thrones, UOW Unibar Venue Manager Nathan Stratton has assured that the Unibar, also a Foxtel customer, won’t be facing the same kind of trouble any time soon. Nor will they...
by Zoe Simmons | Apr 13, 2016 | News
Led Zeppelin isn’t the first band to be put through the litigation ringer—but they are the latest. The US District Court of California ruled last Friday the band’s hit song Stairway to Heaven had “substantial similarities” to Spirit’s Taurus. It’s claimed...