The Supreme Court just handed the next president a powerful lever to control U.S. climate policy
Feb 13, 2016 01:31 am UTC| Law Nature
Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to halt, at least temporarily, implementation of one of the central components of the federal effort to constrain U.S. climate emissions, the Clean Power Plan. The...
Why Digital India took on Facebook and won
Feb 12, 2016 07:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Law
This week marked a significant event in the life of Digital India, in a country that is home to more than 400 million internet users. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) passed a regulation prohibiting...
What needs to happen now to get medicinal cannabis to those who need it?
Feb 12, 2016 07:42 am UTC| Health Law
This week minister for health Sussan Ley tabled amendments to our drugs act to allow growing cannabis for medicinal or scientific purposes. The amendments will create two licence classes (medicine and research), limit...
The Dallas Buyers Club case is over and the precedent is good news for all Australians
Feb 11, 2016 14:09 pm UTC| Law
The battle of Voltage Pictures vs illegal downloaders of the Dallas Buyers Club was always going to set a precedent for the movie industry and the Australian market. If Voltage had prevailed in the courts, downloaders...
Google deal: in defence of the taxman
Feb 11, 2016 13:50 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Google came under a barrage of criticism for paying less than its fair share of tax and HMRC has been accused of being soft or incompetent for the sweetheart deal it negotiated. Publicly available information is not...
Shouldn't there be a time limit on Mickey's copyright?
Feb 11, 2016 08:40 am UTC| Law
In 1998, the U.S. Congress passed the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 (CTEA). CTEA expanded on the Copyright Act of 1976 by retroactively extending all existing copyrights by 20 years. So instead of the steady...
California Bankruptcy Court To Decide Whether Bitcoin Is A Currency Or Commodity
Feb 10, 2016 07:22 am UTC| Digital Currency Law
While the debate about the status of bitcoin legal/illegal or commodity/currency/property continues, a California bankruptcy court is set to decide whether the digital currency should be considered as a currency. The...
Gabon: post-coup dialogue has mapped out path to democracy – now military leaders must act
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects