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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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Law 2.0

Posted on July 29, 2009
At the State Legal Educators Conference this morning, I am presenting a paper titled Law 2.0: The Challenge of User-generated and Peer-produced Networks, Content & Culture. You can watch a video of that presentation here: Law 2.0: The Challenge of User-generated and Peer-produced Networks, Content & Culture from Peter Black...

Blogging resumes soon

Posted on July 15, 2009
Watch this space ...

I am a Geek

Posted on June 24, 2009
A video from the Society for Geek Advancement:

Guest post: "We Should Re-Think our Stance on Fiji"

Posted on May 06, 2009
Dilan, a regular reader of this blog, has written this opinion piece on Fiji and I have agreed to post it below: We Should Re-Think our Stance on Fiji It seems self-evident that democracy is the most effective form of government regardless of how imperfect it may be...

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Guest post: "We Should Re-Think our Stance on Fiji"

#atNickHodge: "Australian Constitution. Yes, We have one"

Posted on May 01, 2009
Last night I was a guest on Nick Hodge's Ustream show, atNickHodge, where we discussed the Australian Constitution:

Podcast on Ice TV Pty Ltd v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd

Posted on April 23, 2009
Yesterday evening I had a chat with Ben Grubb from Tech Wired Australia about the High Court's decision Ice TV Pty Ltd v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd. Ben has posted a podcast of that conversation you can download here. And see my previous posts on the decision here and...

What others are saying about Ice TV Pty Ltd v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd

Posted on April 22, 2009
Yesterday the High Court of Australia handed down its decision in Ice TV Pty Ltd v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd, bringing to an end legal proceedings that have been going on for the past three years. (I first blogged about the case in October 2006 here...

Ice TV Pty Ltd v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd

Posted on April 21, 2009
Update: link fixed. Judgment also now available on AustLII here. The High Court of Australian has handed down this morning its decision in Ice TV Pty Ltd v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd. I've been following this case since October 2006 (see my first post here) so it is interesting...

Ice TV Pty Ltd v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd

So what is happening with this blog?

Posted on April 05, 2009
I've just realised that it has been almost two months since I posted anything to this little blog. Unlike my previous blogging hiatus, this blogging break was not planned in any way, it just happened. My absence from the blogosphere was not because there was nothing worth blogging about or...

So what is happening with this blog?

Podcast of The Tangled Web: Beyond an Internet Filter

Posted on March 26, 2009
On Tuesday night I had the pleasure of chairing a newmatilda.com public forum on the internet regulation debate in Australia: newmatilda.com presents a series of public forums about the internet regulation debate in Australia. The Federal Government's proposal to block internet sites with a mandatory filter has drawn overwhelming opposition...

Podcast of The Tangled Web: Beyond an Internet Filter

Finally! A politician worth following on Twitter

Posted on February 07, 2009
Politico's Ben Smith explains why we should all be following US Senator Claire McCaskill on Twitter: Many politicians are now on Twitter, but few are posting stream-of-consciousness updates from their BlackBerrys, and the telegraphic press releases that compose most official tweets can be a bit wearing...

"25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About You"

Posted on February 07, 2009
Time's Claire Suddath has understandably had enough of the latest ridiculous Facebook meme, "25 Things About Me":A girl I knew in high school has memorized all of Janet Jackson's dance routines. A college acquaintance is afraid of train whistles. Five separate people harbor lifelong desires to visit New Zealand...

Goodbye Twitter?

Posted on February 07, 2009
Facebook has announced that they are opening up their status API:Facebook has made a number of updates to the Facebok platform one of which is the opening of status updates. In order to get Facebook statuses, you no longer need to use a session ID to access statuses...

Brisbane Twestival

Posted on February 07, 2009
This coming Thursday 12 February a series of Twestivals are being held over the world to raise money for charity: water and Brisbane is no exception:Step right up! Come along to the number one charity event this year: Brisbane Twestival!We're raising money for charity:water, who help the 1 in 6...

iiNet copyright case update

Posted on February 07, 2009
In November I blogged that iiNet had been sued for copyright infringement by by Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Disney and the Seven Network (see here). The case moved forward during the week with iiNet filing their defence on Thursday and...

"25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About You"

Posted on February 07, 2009
Time's Claire Suddath has understandably had enough of the latest ridiculous Facebook meme, "25 Things About Me": A girl I knew in high school has memorized all of Janet Jackson's dance routines. A college acquaintance is afraid of train whistles. Five separate people harbor lifelong desires to visit New Zealand...

Joe Trippi at QUT: "Online campaigning in the US Presidential election"

Posted on February 05, 2009
As part of Joe Trippi's visit to Australia thanks to Microsoft Australia, he will be speaking at QUT on Thursday 5 March:QUT Faculty of Law Free Public Lecture Series 2009Presents Mr Joe TrippiTrippi & Associates (USA) Online campaigning in the US Presidential election Thursday 5 March 2009 The Gibson RoomLevel...

The Great Dissenter

Posted on January 29, 2009
On Monday Justice Kirby will retire from the High Court of Australia. In today's The Australian there are two pieces on Justice Kirby's contribution, one by Michael Pelly and another by Professor Michael Lavarch. Although only time will tell if the judicial philoposhy evident in Justice Kirby's judgments, many of...

Second Annual Microsoft Politics & Technology Forum: Online Campaigning

Posted on January 28, 2009
On Thursday 26 February, Microsoft will be hosting their second annual Politics and Technology Forum. The keynote speaker this year is Joe Trippi. Once again it looks as though it will be an excellent event: Join government, business leaders and political bloggers at the second annual Microsoft Politics & Technology...

Pirating the 2009 Oscars

Posted on January 28, 2009
Waxy has posted some amazing data on the availability of unauthorised copies of Oscar-nominated movies. The data reveals that virtually all movies have been posted to file sharing networks and that the source for almost all of those movies are screener copies distributed by the studios and not the poor...

Lose-lose: The New York Times and GateHouse Media settle their dispute over linking

Posted on January 27, 2009
The New York Times Company and GateHouse Media have settled the copyright infringement suit Gatehouse Media filed last month:GateHouse had accused The Boston Globe and its website, Boston.com, both of which are owned by The New York Times, of violating copyright law by posting material without permission from WickedLocal...

Top 250 Australian blogs

Posted on January 27, 2009
Over at Dipping into the Blogpond, Meg Tsiamis has posted a special Australia Day 2009 list of the 250 top Australian blogs. This humble little blog, which was once in the top 100, is now sitting at 157 (that's what happens when your blogging becomes erratic, sporadic even)...

Social media will apparently make you a better writer

Posted on January 27, 2009
Over the weekend I cam across two separate blog posts that made the somewhat counter intuitive argument that blogging and Twitter actually make you better writers. In a guest post on Problogger, freelance writer Jenny Cromie outlined five ways blogging can improve your writing...

Lose-lose: The New York Times and GateHouse Media settle their dispute over linking

Blawg Review #196

Posted on January 26, 2009
G'day and welcome back down under! And most importantly, Happy Australia Day! This is the fourth time I have hosted Blawg Review from Australia (I previously hosted Blawg Review #85, Blawg Review #136 and Blawg Review #178.). For those who don't know, the Blawg Review is a weekly round-up of...

Blawg Review #196

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