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Some people hate lawyers. Shakespeare's Henry VI wanted to "kill all the lawyers," and Vladimir Lenin advised clients to give their lawyers "hell" and denounce them as scoundrels. In the United States, even children recite anti-lawyer jokes like: "Why won't a shark attack a lawyer? Professional courtesy."   Gi..

Procedure for filing the complaint   1.            Complaints against the Press           It is open to any person to lodge a complaint with the Press Council against a newspaper for a breach of the recognized ethical canons of jo..

In DoPT’s reply to our legal notice, there is an offer to make available the “minutes of the decision taken by the committee.” Presumably, it means that DoPT is willing to provide minutes of each and every meeting of the PM’s committee that selects Central Information Commissioners. So we should quote this reply and file RTI applications aski..

Background     * In its 2007 arts policy, New Directions for the Arts, the Federal Government committed to a resale royalty scheme for visual artists, based on the recommendation in the Report of the Contemporary Visual Arts and Craft Inquiry of 2002.     * In the May 2008 budget, the Government allocated A$1.5 million o..

Recently, many Australian businesses have become the target of a surge in intellectual property scams that charge substantial amounts of money for services of little or no commercial value. We have received numerous inquiries from business owners questioning the veracity of unsolicited correspondence purporting to offer IP related services. Invariably, these 'servic..

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The Queen has warned freelance photographers with powerful lenses who were planning to spend Christmas staking out the Sandringham estate in the hope of snatched shots of her family that their activities will no longer be tolerated...

Boston GARY LOCKE, the secretary of commerce, has urged Congress to overhaul the nation's patent law by the end of the year. Although a bill has been circulating since 2005, a fierce fight involving the high-tech and drug industries on a technical issue — how to measure damages when a company violates a patent applying to one component o..

With inter-state relations getting increasingly focused on integration, the impetus for summits and meetings has been on the increase.   However, there is also the resounding feeling that these are becoming more rhetorical than real. Almost every month we hear of a summit or a meeting of states, but the actual progress towards ..

Either copyright should apply equally to all works, or it should apply to none, I disagree. We should be careful in determining which classes of works we should grant copyrights to, and which we should not, and what the maximum lengths of the terms for various classes of works should be. This is because copyright is meant to be an i..

A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit underscores the danger of assuming you can transfer IP licenses in a merger or business sale without the express consent of the licensor. In Cincom Systems Inc. v. Novelis Corp., Cincom granted a license to Alcan Ohio to use its database management software. The license stated that it wa..

Through the tenets of the National Trust Act of 1999, the "protectors" of persons with autism, cerebral palsy, mental retardation and multiple disabilities seek to develop a situation that:     * Enables and empowers persons with disability to live as independently and as fully as possible within and as close to the community to w..

   An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the treatment and care of mentally ill persons, to make better provision with respect to their properly and affairs and for matters connected therewith or..