SID is organised by Insafe each year in February to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world. The topic for 2010 focuses on sexting and cyber-bullying is "Think B4 U post!"
Last Updated on Tuesday, 09 February 2010 09:53
AFACT v iiNet: The IIA invites you to a legal briefing on the judgment
Tuesday, 02 February 2010 15:37
The Internet Industry Association welcomes the Federal Court judgmentRoadshow Films Pty Ltd v iiNet Limited (includes summary) (No. 3) [2010] FCA 24 (4 February 2010) as one of the most significant for ISPs and intermediaries generally.
The court concluded that iiNet did not authorise copyright
infringement for three reasons:
first because the copyright infringements occurred directly as a result of the
use of the BitTorrent
system, not the use of the internet, and the respondent
did not create and does not control the BitTorrent system;
second because
the
respondent did not have a relevant power to prevent those infringements
occurring; and
third because the respondent did not sanction,
approve or
countenance copyright infringement.
IIA chief executive, Peter Coroneos along with its legal advisers on the case, Clayton Utz have convened an expert panel to debrief IIA members on the implications of the judgment in the days following the decision.
While the Government invites ISPs to register for further particulars on their new responsibilities, the IIA has already received queries from several ISPs and other industry members on how the proposals may affect them.
