TAG | Law lagging behind the new media? |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Tuesday, 11 November 2008 | |
  
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Featured speakers and their papers include: Professor Les McCrimmon (Commissioner in charge) Australian Law Reform Commission ALRC 108 For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and Practice Angus Henderson, Partner - Gilbert + Tobin, Michelle Rowland, Lawyer - Gilbert + Tobin Commercial implications of the ALRC Privacy Review Henry Ergas, Economist & Chairman - Concept Economics National Broadband Network Rollout Dr Bruce Tonkin, Chief Technology Officer – Melbourne IT & ICANN Board Member International legal implications relating to the creation of new global top-level domain names Peter Coroneos, Chief Executive - Internet Industry Association The song of the Internet Intermediary: Why is everyone pickin' on me? Sophie Dawson, Partner – Blake Dawson Internet Privacy and Social Networking Sites There will also be an industry discussion panel on the topic: Is The Law Keeping Up With Communications Technology? Panelists will include: Ian Robertson, Managing Partner - Holding Redlich. Conference chair and panel facilitator Andrew Lambert, Supervising Counsel – Telstra Media Jennifer Follette, Director Legal and Corporate Affairs - Microsoft Australia Nina Ta, General Counsel – Ninemsn Katrina Rathie, Partner & head of media practice group - Mallesons Stephen Jaques Jane Schulze, Media Editor – The Australian "This particular event is looking at media and communications explosion which is continuing to happen in the digital environment," says Andrew Vallentine, spokesman for the event organiser Rothworx. The event will look at a variety of issues involved with Internet publishing, including content filtering and privacy. "We've got a paper looking at defamation and privacy in relation to social networking sites," says Mr Vallentine. "One of the areas that social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace have brought up for example is publishing photographs that appear for the benefit of say a group of friends. However, it's quite easy for anyone to get in to somebody's site and copy that photograph, alter it and use it in a means that the person who posted the photograph had firstly knowledge of and secondly no abilityto do anything about. "So what was a social networking facility has become a vehicle for problems for users and created a situation where the law has to learn how to deal with new problems relating to privacy." The conference will be held at the Royal Automobile Club, Macquarie Street, Sydney on 27 November. |
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