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We will send you an email each month with the highlights of our latest Thinking. Summary. Equinix brings expansion plans forward - Networking. Left out in the cold? Cloud service providers feel chill wind following Optus ruling. Last week the Full Federal Court (FFC) held that Optus’ TV Now service, which enabled consumers to record free-to-air TV to the cloud for playback on their personal devices, infringed copyright.
In doing so, it distinguished the cloud-based ‘TV Now’ service from VCRs and other personal video recorders (PVRs) in a manner that must have blown a chill wind through the offices of other cloud-based service providers in Australia. In the case of VCRs and PVRs, recordings are considered to be made by the consumer, which can take advantage of the timeshifting exception in s111 of the Act. Succession plan urged for AFL. COLLINGWOOD chief executive Gary Pert has called for the AFL to implement a succession plan and identify Andrew Demetriou's replacement as soon as the league boss feels his tenure is coming to an end.
Demetriou's future was a talking point among club administrators late last year after he appeared worn down from, among other things, brokering the $1.25 billion broadcast rights deal with Foxtel, Seven Network and Telstra and the new collective bargaining agreement with players and their association. The latter involved sometimes heated discussions with the stars who put on the game, and prompted one leading club administrator to privately feel Demetriou would imminently end his reign, which is now into its ninth season. But Demetriou, 50, said in an interview earlier this year he felt invigorated by the challenges ahead and has since said retirement rumours were untrue. Advertisement ''Obviously I am big into succession planning,'' Pert said.
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Check out all the team! Join Andrew McColm & Dr. Ron along with our regulars, Mark Diggins and Graeme Callaghan. Leena Van Deventer brings a thorough understanding of gaming to the panel. When asked Mac or PC, she responded Mac! Works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=jeffrey_malkan. Singtel Optus Pty Ltd v National Rugby League Investments Pty Ltd (No 2) [2012] FCA 34 (1 February 2012)
Who owns footy rights? Optus web copyright victory explained. Yesterday’s Federal Court ruling that Optus customers are able to view sporting matches minutes after they are streamed live without breaching copyright is a landmark decision that alters our understanding of copyright law, and has significant implications for the AFL’s broadcasting rights deal.
The ruling, by Justice Steven Rares in the Optus v Telstra, AFL and NRL copyright case, finds that computers (including tablets such as the iPad) and mobile devices such as iPhones and smartphones are now the modern equivalent of the video cassette recorder. Individuals are now able to record free-to-air broadcasts onto their computer or mobile device and watch the broadcast moments after the original broadcast - which in many cases will be live - without breaching copyright. Optus Web Copyright Victory Explained. TV Now ruling tests Convergence Review spirit - Full Duplex - Blogs. Www.ag.gov.au/Consultationsreformsandreviews/Documents/Final - Revised draft terms of reference ALRC review.pdf.
National Rugby League Investments Pty Limited v Singtel Optus Pty Ltd [2012] FCAFC 59 (27 April 2012) You are here: AustLII >> Databases >> Federal Court of Australia - Full Court >> 2012 >> [2012] FCAFC 59 [Database Search] [Name Search] [Recent Decisions] [Noteup] [Download] [Context] [No Context] [Help] Last Updated: 30 April 2012 National Rugby League Investments Pty Limited v Singtel Optus Pty Ltd In accordance with the practice of the Federal Court in some cases of public interest, importance or complexity, the following summary has been prepared to accompany the orders made today.
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This summary is intended to assist in understanding the outcome of this proceeding and is not a complete statement of the conclusions reached by the Court. New Service Will Stream Local TV Stations in New York. 11:40 a.m. | Updated Barry Diller, who created the Fox television network almost 30 years ago, now wants to free it and other networks from the chains of what he calls the “closed cable-broadcast-satellite circle.”
On Tuesday, at the Manhattan headquarters of his company, IAC/InterActiveCorp, he introduced Aereo, an Internet television service that he said “pries over-the-air broadcast television out of that closed system.” Aereo is one of the most ambitious attempts to date to distribute television over the Internet, potentially posing a new threat to the cable and satellite distributors that control a vast majority of TV viewing in the United States. IAC led a $20.5 million round of financing for Aereo, and Mr. Diller is joining the start-up’s board. Aereo takes advantage of the rapid rise in broadband Internet access to stream broadcast television.
Could an Oracle Win Against Google Blow Up the Cloud? What will happen to companies that clone Amazon's APIs if APIs can be copyrighted?
Photo: U.S. Air Force A San Francisco court has spent the past few weeks considering a copyright question that could weigh heavy on the future of cloud computing. Startups Party at the Patent Office. Software startups have traditionally avoided patenting their innovations, viewing it as an unneeded expense that can eat up $15,000 or so.
“We thought about it, because there’s definitely some patentable stuff,” says Brett Martin, the chief executive officer of New York’s Sonar, which makes an app that helps people connect with strangers. “But we’re busy trying to build a business.” Yet many who aspire to build the next Facebook are learning from the mistakes of their guru, Mark Zuckerberg. Ongoing Patent Fights Mean Startups Are Now Wasting What Little Money They Have At The Patent Office. Last week, I had the chance to chat with the General Counsel of a well known internet company -- not a "giant" one, but one you've almost certainly heard of -- and we got to discussing Twitter's new patent assignment agreement with its employees, and whether or not other tech companies would start offering the same thing.
He was a bit skeptical, and pointed out that, even at a company the size of his (big enough to have a full time general counsel, for example) they had applied for exactly zero patents. He said he's tried, but none of the engineers at the company have any interest at all in patenting what they're working on (actually, in talking to someone else later on, I heard that the bigger issue is that some of the employees are thinking about ways to open source their work). Rights holders' big win in copyright review terms - Telco/ISP. Rumblings from the copyright cloud - Telco/ISP. Federal Court overturns Optus TV Now decision - Telco/ISP. Conroy to visit Google in data centre push - Software.