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A blog that speaks freely about legal issues facing the media and the internet. It mainly covers issues relating to the legal regulation of the internet and the media, but at times Constitutional law issues and politics are discussed. While the focus is on Australia, developments in other nations around the world are considered as well.

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The weekend web

Posted on May 30, 2008
Business Week describes the weekend web: There's only one Web. At least that's been the standard response in many tech circles to the emergence of the wireless Web. The point? No matter how you get online, be it by PC or smartphone, you'll still do the same things on the...

New Solicitor-General of Australia appointed

Posted on May 30, 2008
The Attorney-General Robert McClelland has just issued this media release: I am pleased to announce the appointment of Stephen John Gageler SC as the next Solicitor-General of Australia. Mr Gageler will commence a five year term on 1 September 2008. Mr Gageler is a highly respected member of the New...

Lessig's next big thing

Posted on May 30, 2008
The Nation has a good profile of Larry Lessig: In late March, Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig came to DC to draw back the curtain on the second act of his career. Lessig, with his placid mien and quiet voice, does not exude the aura of a star, but over...

The weekend web

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New Solicitor-General of Australia appointed

fbCal: a great new Facebook application

Posted on May 29, 2008
Only a few hours ago I was complaining to my sister that I couldn't export Facebook events to my calendar, so I was thrilled to read Duncan Riley's review of fbCal: fbCal is a Facebook application that allows users to export date specific information from Facebook to external calander services...

Now this is exciting ...

Posted on May 29, 2008
TV Tonight reports the exciting news that Working Dog is returning to the ABC: Great news today with the announcement that Working Dog is to make a brand new series, The Hollowmen, on the ABC. Set in the world of politics, the 6 x 30 min series will look at...

US newspapers turn 225

Posted on May 29, 2008
USA Today writes that the death of newspapers is premature: "The report of my death is an exaggeration." Mark Twain to the New York Journal, 1897 The first daily newspaper in the USA was born 225 years ago next week. The triweekly Pennsylvania Evening Post in Philadelphia became a daily...

Mercedes Corby wins

Posted on May 29, 2008
Mercedes Corby has won her defamation against Today Tonight: Mercedes Corby has won her defamation case against Channel Seven. Corby, sister of Schapelle Corby - jailed for attempting to smuggle marijuana into Bali in 2004 - had claimed that she was grossly defamed in the Today Tonight programs...

Marketing movies on Facebook

Posted on May 29, 2008
ClickZ looks at how Indiana Jones has been promoted on Facebook: Paramount Pictures is expected to have a monster hit this Memorial Day Weekend with "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." Regardless of how the film does in theaters, the studio has scored big on Facebook...

Rethinking copyright law

Posted on May 27, 2008
TechCrunch's Michael Arrington comments on YouTube-Viacom copyright showdown (see my earlier post from today here) and offers some insightful observations on the need to rethink copyright law: There was more posturing today in the big YouTube-Viacom copyright showdown that began around the time that Google acquired YouTube and started talking...

Is what Lee Siegel did wrong?

Posted on May 27, 2008
US critic Lee Siegel got into trouble for posting flattering replies to his own blog under a false name. In The Guardian he explains why he has no regrets: The web is only about 15 years old, but already the conversation about it runs along tired old lines...

Best products of 2008

Posted on May 27, 2008
PC World lists the best tech products of 2008: After a good deal of--ahem--lively discussion, the editors at PC World have completed this year's list of the 100 best technology products available today. How did we do it? After nominating hundreds of devices, apps, sites, and services we knew to...

Australia considering cyber treaty

Posted on May 27, 2008
Australian IT reports that a proposed cyber treaty may mean new surveillance laws in Australia: LAWS allowing police to rapidly secure evidence held on computers, and to obtain real-time access to network traffic, may be needed for Australia to join a global treaty aimed at fighting fraud and electronic crime...

Zuckerberg set up Facebook to get laid?

Posted on May 27, 2008
Gawker has posted copies of documents supposedly by "Bringing Down The House" author Ben Mezrich that detail plans for a memoir about Facebook?s founders. The book will apparently include the revelation that Facebook was set up to help Mark Zuckerberg get laid: The author of Bringing Down The House has...

Viacom "threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment and political and artistic expression"

Posted on May 27, 2008
Google is arguing hard that there is something very important at stake in Viacom's action against YouTube: Google's lawyers suggest that Viacom's strategy in its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube is to subvert the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's protection of websites and Internet service providers and "threatens the way hundreds...

Twitter or something else?

Posted on May 26, 2008
Like many Twitter uses I've been very frustrated by the amount of time Twitter has been down recently. So I found Brian Alvery's proposed business model for Twitter very amusing: I finally figured out a business model for Twitter. It's advertising based and it only works if Twitter doesn't solve...

Well this is an overreaction

Posted on May 26, 2008
In the UK, The Register reports that Faceparty has deleted most of its users over the age of 36 because it claims older users pose a danger of sex offending: A social networking site has deleted most of its users over the age of 36 because it claims older users...

Recount

Posted on May 26, 2008
Charlie Rose interviews Kevin Spacey, David Boies and Jeff Toobin on the upcoming HBO movie Recount:

How many friends do you really need?

Posted on May 26, 2008
Techdirt's Mike Masnick says that he'll decide who is friends are: There's already been a court ruling noting that being a Facebook friend is not like being a "real" friend, but the vast "cheapening" of the concept of friendship is ticking some people off...

Campaign chorus

Posted on May 26, 2008
As all readers of this blog would be aware, this is America's first YouTube election. In a piece for the Sydney Morning Herald, Dorian Lynskey counts the hits - and misses: YouTube is the entertainment battleground for the US election. From stars to amateurs, thousands of campaigners have posted songs...

Internet users getting more selfish

Posted on May 26, 2008
BBC News reports that we are getting more selfish when we hop online: Web users are getting more ruthless and selfish when they go online, reveals research. The annual report into web habits by usability guru Jakob Nielsen shows people are becoming much less patient when they go online...

It's just a flesh wound!

Posted on May 26, 2008
An inspired use of Monty Python's Holy Grail to highlight Hillary Clinton's struggling campaign:

Email to remain dominant

Posted on May 26, 2008
Media Post reports on the future of email: One of the issues raised repeatedly during Wednesday's opening sessions at the Email Insider Summit was: Whither email when a younger generation raised on Facebook, MySpace and social networking platforms enters the workforce? Will they use email to communicate with their colleagues,...

Apparently I'm an attention-seeking extrovert

Posted on May 23, 2008
Australian social networking expert Laurel Papworth analyses social networking profiles for News.com.au: IF you're changing your Facebook status every five minutes there is a good chance the only thing people will notice is that you're an attention-seeking extrovert...

A life exposed

Posted on May 23, 2008
The cover story for this Sunday's Times Magazine, is an insightful and poignant piece by Emily Gould looking at the consequences of exposing her life - and the lives of those around her - in her blog Emily Magazine: Back in 2006, when I was 24, my life was cozy...

Be afraid, be very afraid

Posted on May 23, 2008
I was surprised to read that online crime (and associated paranoia) in Canada is so high, especially because these findings would be similar in most western countries: Canadians are more likely to be victims of crime on the Internet than they are on the streets, suggests a new survey commissioned...

The panels for the Politics and Technology Forum with Matt Bai

Posted on May 22, 2008
Yesterday I promised that more details on Microsfot's Politics and Technology Forum with Matt Bai would be forthcoming (see here). So here are the two panels that follow Matt Bai's keynote address on the rise of political movements in the internet age and, as you can see, I am fortunate...

Politics and Technology Forum with Matt Bai

Posted on May 21, 2008
Microsoft Australia has confirmed an their inaugural Politics & Technology Forum: Join Government and business leaders and political bloggers for Australia?s inaugural Politics & Technology Forum, proudly sponsored by Microsoft, on 25 June 2008 at the Hyatt, Canberra...

QUT Legal Practice 30th Anniversary Free Public Lecture by Justice Michael Kirby

Posted on May 21, 2008
The QUT Legal Practice Unit is hosting an exciting event on 17 June: To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the QUT Legal Practice Unit, Justice Michael Kirby is presenting a Free Public Lecture. In this public lecture Justice Michael Kirby will describe recent developments in the High Court of Australia...

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