The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
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Stuart Corner
Thursday, 10 June 2010 17:11
The chairman of the Internet Industry Assocation, Peter Coroneos, has told the CIOs of many of Australia's universities that, should the movie studios succeed in their appeal against iiNet over copyright infringement, the universities would have almost no protection against damages claims brought against them for use of their networks for the unauthorised downloading or storage of copyright content.
The problem centres on the 'safe harbour' provisions of the Copyright Act. Had the court found iiNet to have authorised breach of copyright by providing the means by which that infringement took place, iiNet, as an ISP would have been able to fall back on these provisions to avoid having to pay damages. This protection is not available to universities.
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