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Category: Legislation
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That the Bill Be Read a Second Time… More Thoroughly
While conducting some research on extraterritorial copyright infringement, I noticed a new bill that was tabled in the Commonwealth Parliament today. The Cross-Border Insolvency Bill 2007 (Cth) (second fireading speech) is essentially designed to transplant the Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law into Australian law. Among its… Read more →
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First Anti-Phishing Law Enacted in California
Phishing is an increasingly common practice employed by fraudsters to procure an individual’s access credentials, typically in relation to an online financial service such as a bank or eBay. It normally involves an e-mail directing users to ‘verify their password’, ‘confirm their account’ or the like, but upon clicking on the link the user is… Read more →
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DMCA claim filed against graduate student
First up on today’s menu: more DMCA legal shenanigans, with a United States copy-protection software developer filing suit against a graduate student at Princeton University under s1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998. SunnComm Technology alleges that one J Halderman engaged in circumvention of a protection measure when publishing a research paper, which detailed… Read more →
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Federal Spam Bill Set to Achieve Nothing
On the local (Australian) front (pardon the anchor cliché), the recent tabling of a tough national Spam law has received industry accolade, and looks set to pass when it is read for a second time next month. Under the proposed legislation, entities engaging in electronic mass-mail practices face penalties of over $1 million a day.… Read more →