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21/10/15

Give and You Shall Receive: TV tax offset could mean $103 million gain

A raise in the television industry’s tax offset from 20% to 40% could generate $103 million in economic activity, according to a report recently released by PwC. The Report was commissioned by Screen Producers Australia (SPA) and Australian Television & Radio Association (ASTRA). The media moguls have taken time out from being competitive mortal enemies...

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VM Solicitors goes to the High Court

Last Friday, von Muenster Solicitors brought a Special Leave Application in the High Court of Australia for our workplace safety client who ran an online, subscription-based service. The firm was represented by Stephen von Muenster and Natalie Zwar. The question on appeal was whether the Supreme Court (sitting in Equity) and the Court of Appeal...

Ex-SBS journalist fights back against unfair dismissal

Back in April of this year SBS reporter Scott McIntyre posted a series of tweets referring to Anzac Day and its commemorators as ‘poorly-read, largely white, nationalist drinkers and gamblers’ and claimed that the ‘largest single-day terrorist attacks in history’ were committed by Australians and their allies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The tweets were considered...

Jay Z in Copyright Dispute over ‘Big Pimpin’

Last week the details of the trial between multiplatinum hip-hop artist Jay Z and nephew of acclaimed Egyptian composer Baligh Hamdi were released. Hamdi’s nephew Osama Fahmy has claimed that Jay Z and producer Tim ‘Timbaland’ Molsey did not properly license his uncle’s composition Khosara Khosara for the 1999 hip-hop anthem Big Pimpin. Hamdi’s estate...

EU Safe Harbour System Annulled

Last week the EU’s highest court annulled a deal, otherwise known as the Safe Harbour system, which allows companies to transfer personal data from Europe to the United States. The Safe Harbour system allowed companies to avoid checks when transferring data between offices at different ends of the Atlantic. Most of this data includes human...

The Grand Finale of the TPP

Over the weekend Wikileaks revealed what is believed to be the final version of the Intellectual Property Chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). For many commentators, the final version while positive for rights-holders is quite disappointing for users and the public domain. Within the Chapter, all the provisions that recognise the rights and benefits of...

Woolworths and Aldi Under Fire For Unfair Suppliers Agreements

The new Grocery Code of Conduct was set up and implemented by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). The code came as result of years of complaints from farmers and food manufacturers about unfair treatment from the supermarket giants. The code is there to ensure that retailers deal and negotiate with their partners in...

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