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Fact or Fiction? Unpacking Australia’s New Proposed Misinformation and Disinformation Laws
Legislation has been introduced into the Australian Parliament designed to combat the spread of misinformation and disinformation on online platforms. The Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024 (Cth) (the Bill) was introduced into the House of Representatives on 12 September 2024.
Fact or Fiction? Unpacking Australia’s New Proposed Misinformation and Disinformation Laws
Legislation has been introduced into the Australian Parliament designed to combat the spread of misinformation and disinformation on online platforms. The Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024 (Cth) (the Bill) was introduced into the House of Representatives on 12 September 2024.
Hungry Jack’s prevails in Trade Mark Burger Wars against McDonald’s – BIG JACK is not deceptively similar to BIG MAC - Addisons
McDonald’s claimed that its competitors’ registered marks for BIG JACK and MEGA JACK infringed the famous BIG MAC mark and McDonald’s lesser known MEGA MAC mark. McDonald’s sought the removal of the Hungry Jack’s marks from the trade mark register. The Federal Court rejected McDonald’s claims, finding that BIG JACK/MEGA JACK were not deceptively similar to BIG MAC/MEGA MAC. The Court found that the words BIG and MEGA were descriptive and laudatory, in this case in relation to hamburgers.
Gold Medal coffee fight - Lavazza prevails in dispute with Cantarella Bros over the use of ORO as a trade mark
The Federal Court of Australia has determined the long-standing dispute between coffee giants Cantarella Bros and Lavazza Australia. While the Court found that Lavazza had been using Cantarella’s ORO trade marks on its packaging, it held that those trade marks were invalid and should be cancelled from the Register and no issue of infringement therefore arose. Background Cantarella and Lavazza have each been selling coffee products in Australia for many years.
Can snooping save lives? The privacy implications of COVID-19 and the collection of personal information in Australia | Lexology
Support for the introduction of a coronavirus contact tracing app to monitor the spread of COVID-19 in Australia has been mixed, even within the government. Whilst they support the effort to contain the virus, some politicians have been outspoken in their opposition of attempts to track the movement of private citizens (including themselves), whilst others have indicated their support is conditional on further privacy protections being guaranteed.
Regulating Information During an ‘Infodemic’ | Lexology
The outbreak of, and response to, COVID-19 has developed at a rapid pace, with new information being published at an unprecedented rate. No matter where you look, there is an endless and insurmountable amount of information and advice being shared about COVID-19.
Australia - Online Gambling: What is a Bet? Decision in Lottoland v ACMA | Lexology
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September 26 2019 Addisons acted for Lottoland in Lottoland’s recent successful application to the Supreme Court of New South Wales in which it sought declarations that various of its products were not “prohibited interactive gambling services” under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 (Cth) (IGA). The decision of Sackar J., which was handed down on 26 July 2019, is the first time that provisions of the IGA have been considered by a superior court in Australia.
No comment? Potential liability for third party Facebook comments following the "Voller" judgment | Lexology
In its recent decision in Voller1 the Supreme Court of New South Wales has established that media organisations may be liable as publishers of defamatory comments made by third parties on their public Facebook pages.2 This is the first time an Australian superior court has considered the question of who is responsible for third party comments on public Facebook pages.
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