How to recover your domain name if it is taken by a cybersquatter

You have a business that is moderately successful. Perhaps you run a local restaurant called Tim’s Chicken Shack. You’re a competent businessman. You have done a bit of advertising to protect your reputation and hold a trade mark in the restaurant’s. You decide to set up a website and try and reg...

How to fight for your domain name in a domain name cybersquatting d...

Litigation sometimes happens to the nicest of domain name owners.Companies who have registered a domain name that is perfect for their business sometimes receive a letter from a law firm alleging that their domain name infringes someone else’s trade mark, or even worse, receive a complaint made a...

Google Books: (un)fair use and its implications for Australia

By Sabiene Heindl, SWH Legal

Size really doesn't matter -- copyright in television show concepts...

By Alison McGinn, Banki Haddock Fiora Summary points This Canadian case, in which a claim for copyright in a television show "format" was successful, teaches us that, in most cases, those who develop television formats and rely on "production bibles" pay insufficient...

Creativity in fashion: the complex effects of Intellectual Property

By William van Caenegem and Violet Atkinson, Bond UniversityIntroductionIn Muscat v Le, (1) Finkelstein J said (2):Fashion is a multi-billion dollar industry that has no national boundaries. The segment of the market that caters to the young isextremely lucrative. Fashion designers are creative p...