A private investigator who spent 15 months as an iiNet customer provides key evidence for last week’s copyright infringement action against the Perth-based ISP.
News of legal action against ISP iiNet for alleged copyright breach has provoked every reaction from ‘What nonsense!’ to ‘The sky is falling!’Lawyers Logie-Smith Lanyon have provided a solution with their ISP Copyright Safe Harbour Kit, a detailed info-pack that’s essential reading for every Australian ISP. Download contents and sample pages.
iiNet and many of its supporters argue that the company cannot terminate users on the basis of mere allegations, and can’t play ‘judge, jury and executioner’.The internet is awash with comment on the copyright infringement action by Village Roadshow and others against iiNet.In this article, CSP Central helps you to focus on the real issues.
Breaking News: A host of major film studios and Channel 7 have today launched legal proceedings in the Federal Court against iiNet alleging copyright infringement.The studios are claiming that iiNet infringed copyright by not stopping iiNet customers from using BitTorrent to infringe the studios’ copyright in their respective films.
Under Australian law, a person can be liable for infringement if he or she ‘authorises’ another person to infringe copyright.
International copyright owners are calling on Aussie ISPs to support a UK-style self-regulatory scheme for disciplining alleged copyright breachers.But the scheme is at odds with the US approach to the same problem, and Australia four years ago decided to follow the US model. Why would local ISPs volunteer for a hybrid solution now, just because some elements of the UK system suit some stakeholders better ?
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