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The Cost Of Entertainment To Be Decided By Judges

Nov 23 2008
Filed In: News

The recent Australian High Court Copyright appeal in the Ice TV Vs Channel Nine hearing and the upcoming copyright ‘Test case’ against Perth based ISP iiNet is set to determine the future for content downloads and the delivery of information to an Electronic Program Guide in Australia.

Early next year the full bench of the Australian High Court will hand down a ruling that will determine whether Australians will get access to a full EPG service..

If Ice TV win their case, companies like Cisco, Microsoft and HP will start delivering a full EPG service with their media centre and media centre extender offerings.

In the most recent copyright case bought by the Australian Federation against Copyright Theft, who represent several Hollywood Studio’s an academic lawyer at Queensland University says the copyright “test case” against ISP iiNet “stretches” even the widened interpretation of Australian copyright law that resulted from the Sharman (Kazaa) case ­ but hinges on whether the respondents have “responsibility” for ensuring its subscribers do not download pirated material.

You can read the full article here
Source: Channel News

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