Our copyright law is a wondrous complex beast, and even apparently simple tweaks carry the potential for significant unintended consequences, writes Kimberlee Weatherall, an associate professor in Sydney University’s Faculty of Law.
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AFL, NRL appeal likely, but Optus TV ruling the right call
Justice Rares in the Federal Court yesterday cut a large chunk out of the value of sports broadcasting rights in new media by ruling that Optus is allowed to offer its TV Now Service, writes Kimberlee Weatherall.
Bartholomeusz: penning a Telstra succession plan?
Yesterday, Andrew Penn emerged with one of the most interesting and challenging roles in corporate Australia, with Telstra announcing his appointment as chief financial officer. Is succession in the wind?
Turnbull overstating the uncommercial NBN case … mostly
Malcolm Turnbull is portraying Thursday’s Productivity Commission report on the NBN Co’s greenfield fibre rollouts as proof the National Broadband Network is anti-competitive and uncommercial. He’s massively overstating the case. Mostly.
Mayne: Nasser, Murdoch sycophancy and the BHP-Billiton AGM
The BHP-Billiton AGM is the biggest event during the AGM season and only Telstra competes when it comes to serving up the lengthiest and craziest fare.
How the NBN came to my house (and how much faster it is)
The prospect of being connected to this high-speed broadband network in the next few months sent me scurrying for information, writes Amanda Gearing, a freelance journalist in Toowoomba.
The fourth generation: Telstra’s switching defence
Telstra’s launch of 4G yesterday is part of the telecommunication giant’s plan to cement itself in the eyes of Australians as the carrier with the fastest and biggest network, writes Charis Palmer.
Gottliebsen: Murray’s key to a super future
David Murray has the chance tomorrow to again put his stamp on Australian superannuation fund savings and the Australian sharemarket, Robert Gottliebsen.
Bartholomeusz: Optus’ NBN collateral damage
On the same day that Telstra and NBN co-signed their deal, NBN Co announced it would pay Optus $800 million to shut down its cable network.
Bartholomeusz: Telstra’s calm and collected separation
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission caused a minor convulsion in the market for Telstra shares yesterday when it released its preliminary views on the group’s structural separation undertakings.
Coalition must adjust to life with fibre
The deals between the NBN and Telstra and Optus lock in the NBN and make life immensely difficult for the Liberals in communications.
Telstra backs the NBN, but the devil’s in the detail
Telstra today signed the Definitive Agreements with NBN Co and the government covering its participation in the rollout of the National Broadband Network. It’s a complex deal, with the details of key documents still hidden thanks to confidentiality.
Footy rights winners and losers … AFL looked after its own
The AFL has certainly looked after its own, with the winners from the AFL’s landmark broadcast rights agreement largely being AFL insiders.
Sensis hangs up on 120 workers
Struggling Telstra subsidiary Sensis will make up to 120 staff redundant nationally following a disastrous profit result on Monday that has left the directories business reeling.
Telstra deal puts more momentum behind the NBN
The Telstra-NBN deal announced this morning puts more weight behind the broadband network, leaving the Coalition ever further behind.
Revisiting the unaccountable Australian corporate landscape
Many of the leading directors who signed off on some of the decade’s worst deals still remarkably remain leading corporate figures.
Cox: NBN the scariest business model I’ve ever seen
No wonder the minister delayed releasing the NBN plan until after the end of the parliamentary year and why he will never let it be exposed to a cost benefit analysis, writes Peter J.Cox, of Cox Media.
Mungo MacCallum: Gillard’s welcome show of strength on Telstra
It was a fitting climax to Labor’s tumultuous parliamentary year. Julia Gillard finally brought off a big win with the passage of the Telstra legislation, but hostile commentators were still able to spin it as a defeat.
Political snippets: Dragging out debate in Parliament is “part of the game”
Senator Boswell, like every other Senator, knows that there is no actual point in dragging out debate on the Government’s legislation authorising the division of Telstra’s retail and wholesale divisions.
NBN business case: curiouser and curiouser
If the government secures passage of its bill to separate Telstra, it will have achieved an historic telecommunications reform. Typically, everyone’s talking about something else.
NBN Co business case — truly a curiously inadequate document
“It is a curiously inadequate document,” wrote Malcolm Turnbull of the NBN Co Business Case Summary. He’s right. A business case that doesn’t, y’know, present a case for the business, supported by proper numbers? WTF?
