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The State of Suppression Orders in Victoria and New South Wales
It is often lamented that there is a problem with suppression orders in Victoria. It has been reported that between early 2006 and June 2008, 627 suppression orders had been issued by the Victorian courts; by comparison, only 54 equivalent orders were made in NSW. Since then, the reported figures suggest that the rate has increased quite dramatically, with 644 such orders said to have been made in Victoria in 2011 alone. But not only are the Victorian courts said to grant too many suppression orders, they have also criticised for making orders which are far too broad in scope and often without sufficient temporal limitations. This study sheds light on the validity of these criticisms by undertaking an empirical analysis of all of the suppression orders distributed to the media by the Victorian courts between 2008 and 2012. In particular, the study demonstrates: the rate at which suppression orders have been made by year and by court; the powers pursuant to which the orders have been made; the frequency with which the courts make different types of orders (ie proceedings vs general); the degree of clarity of the orders; the rate at which the orders contain an end date; and, finally, the rate at which specific types of information are suppressed (for example, the defendant's identity, the identity of a witness or victim, particular pieces of evidence, prior convictions, etc). Drawing upon the results of the data analysis, conclusions are then made about the state of suppression in Victoria.
A free public seminar presented by the Centre for Media and Communications Law in association with Gilbert + Tobin Lawyers
MELBOURNE SEMINAR
SPEAKERS:
Peter Leonard (Chair), Partner, Gilbert + Tobin
Jason Bosland, Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School
Peter Bartlett , Partner, Minter Ellison
The Hon. Justice Bernard Bongiorno AO (Discussant), Judge in Residence, Melbourne Law School
DATE: Monday 13th May 2013
TIME: 5.30 pm for refreshments, 6.00 pm for seminar
VENUE: Gilbert + Tobin, Eureka Room, Level 22, 101 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
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SYDNEY SEMINAR
SPEAKERS:
Peter Leonard (Chair), Partner, Gilbert + Tobin
Jason Bosland, Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School
Gail Hambly, Group General Counsel & Company Secretary, Fairfax Media
The Hon. Justice Bernard Bongiorno AO (Discussant), Judge in Residence, Melbourne Law School
DATE: Tuesday 14th May 2013
TIME: 5.30 pm for refreshments, 6.00 pm for seminar
VENUE: Gilbert + Tobin, Woodstock Room, Level 37, 2 Park Street, Sydney NSW 2000
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For further information contact: Clarissa Terry, law-cmcl@unimelb.edu.au, ph: 03 8344 9970
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Media, Communication, Publics
2013 CMCL Conference
The University of Melbourne
25-26 February 2013
Program available now
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Dr Mark Andrejevic
Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland
Pre-emptive Security: Policing, Security, and the Big Data Divide
Professor Tanya Aplin
Law, Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London
Privacy Reform Post Leveson
Dr Alana Maurushat
Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, University of NSW
Piratage
CONFERENCE LOCATION
Registration and all conference sessions will take place on Level 1 of the Melbourne Law School at 185 Pelham Street, Carlton. All floors are accessible by lifts and by stairs (note there is a mezzanine level between ground and first floor).
FURTHER INFORMATION
Contact: Clarissa Terry
Ph: +61 3 8344 9970
Email: law-cmcl@unimelb.edu.au
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To view call for papers click here
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Australian Law Reform Commission
Copyright and the Digital Economy Issues Paper
A free public seminar in Sydney, presented by the Centre for Media and Communications Law in association with Baker & McKenzie
The Centre for Media and Communications Law (CMCL) presents an update on copyright issues in response to the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) Issues Paper on Copyright and the Digital Economy (2012) . This Issues Paper is the first formal publication of the ALRC review, intended to help frame discussion and encourage public consultation at an early stage. This public seminar brings together several respected voices to explain the ALRC's process and to respond to some of the issues raised by the Issues Paper.
SPEAKERS
Justine Clarke, Australian Law Reform Commission
Overview of the ALRC's Process
Dr Emily Hudson, University of Oxford
Flexibility and Copyright Exceptions
Andrew Stewart, Baker & McKenzie
Copyright and the Cloud- Striking a Balance in the Virtual World
DATE: Thursday 13 September 2012
TIME: 6.00 - 7.15 pm (refreshments from 5.30 pm)
VENUE: Baker & McKenzie, Level 27, A.M.P. Centre, 50 Bridge Street, Sydney, NSW
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Registrations essential
For further information contact: law-cmcl@unimelb.edu.au
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Amateur Media: Social, cultural and legal perspectives Book Launch
hosted by the Centre for Media and Communications Law, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative
Industries and Innovation and the Swinburne Institute for Social Research
We are pleased to invite you to celebrate the launch of this new book published by Routledge and edited by Dan Hunter, Ramon Lobato, Megan Richardson and Julian Thomas. This edited collection provides a interdisciplinary contextualisation of amateur media before and after Web 2.0. Surveying the institutional, economic and legal construction of the amateur media producer via a series of case studies, it features contributions from experts in the fields of law, economics and media studies based in the UK, Europe, the US and Singapore.
Please join us at a reception to launch this book and meet some of the editors and authors over drinks and canapés.
DATE: Tuesday 4th September 2012
TIME: 5.30 - 7.00 pm
PLACE: Level 9 Common Room, Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham St, Carlton
RSVP: law-cmcl@unimelb.edu
RSVPs essential
For further details of the book click here
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Copyright, Creators and Collecting Institutions: 2012 Update
The Centre for Media and Communications Law presents an update on copyright issues for collecting institutions, drawing from ARC Linkage Projects in the sector and similar New Zealand research. Join Professor Andrew Kenyon, Joint-Director of the CMCL, for a morning of information, discussion and debate.
Speakers:
Susan Corbett, Victoria University of Wellington
Collections online and the law: a New Zealand perspective
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Robin Wright, Swinburne University of Technology
Public cultural institutions and online delivery: copyright and an ethical licensing model
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Dr Emily Hudson, University of Oxford
Flexibility and copyright exceptions
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Click here to view abstracts and bios for speakers
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Thusrday 23rd Ausgust 2012
Venue: Room 920, Level 9, Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton
Time: 9.30 am - 2.00 pm
Cost: $100 (including lunch)
Contact: law-cmcl@unimelb.edu.au
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New Models for Copyright Law Reform
A free public seminar in Sydney, proudly presented by IPRIA in association with the Centre for Media and Communications Law and the Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney.
Vilfredo Pareto once observed that 'elites do not last … the history of man is the history of the continuous replacement of certain elites: as one ascends, another declines' (The Rise and Fall of Elites, 1901). Is this what we are seeing in the copyright sphere in 2012? First, in January, the SOPA and PIPA copyright bills were withdrawn from the US Congress after massive internet protests including a temporary blackout by Wikipedia. Subsequently, the secretly-negotiated ACTA agreement has been subject to worldwide attack with the prospect of widespread ratification now in question. Is Pareto being proved right? In other words, is it a matter of new internet businesses which benefit from minimal (or limited) copyright protection effectively challenging the older entertainment industries which rely on strong copyright protection? Or is it rather that, as some commentators say, the anti-SOPA, -PIPA and -ACTA movements mark the beginning of a new more democratic phase of copyright law reform? The fate of the latest OPEN copyright bill in the US and the Australian Law Reform Commission's current copyright reference will each be interesting in pointing out any possibilities for new democratic models for copyright law reform to emerge.
PRESENTERS:
• Professor Dan Hunter , Director, Institute for Information Law & Policy, New York Law School (USA)
• Professor Julian Thomas , Director, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University
• Professor Jill McKeough , Commissioner, Australian Law Reform Commission
EVENT DETAILS
SYDNEY
DATE: Tuesday 12 June 2012, 4:30-5:30pm (Refreshments from 4:00pm)
VENUE: Law Conference Room, 3.18 Law Faculty, Building 5, Block B, University of Technology, Sydney, Corner of Quay St and Ultimo Road, Haymarket NSW
COST: Free of charge
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Or click here to view the flyer
SEMINAR CONTACT: Michelle Wilson, IPRIA, Alan Gilbert Building, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010
Telephone: (03) 8344 2153 Fax: (03) 8344 2111
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Village Roadshow v iiNet: The decision and its ramifications for copyright owners and ISPS
A free public seminar in Melbourne, proudly presented by IPRIA in association with the Centre for Media and Communications Law.
Village Roadshow v iiNet: The decision and its ramifications for copyright owners and ISPs
In April 2012 the High Court found that iiNet was not liable for authorising infringements undertaken on BitTorrent peer-to-peer networks and through the use of some of its customers' internet connections. (This was in the context of iiNet having received notices about those infringements from rights holders.) The High Court decision was, in part, based on a finding that iiNet had ‘no direct technical power at its disposal to prevent a customer from using the BitTorrent system'.
The decision arrives at a delicate time when the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department is hosting negotiations between peak players in the content and communications industries. A key objective of those negotiations is to develop a code of conduct to address the issue of unlawful peer-to-peer distribution.
This public seminar brings together several authoritative voices to explain the decision and to discuss its ramifications.
PRESENTERS:
• Mr Neil Gane , Managing Director, Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT)
• Mr John Stanton , Chief Executive Officer, Communications Alliance
• Dr David Lindsay , Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University
EVENT DETAILS
MELBOURNE
DATE: Thursday 31 May 2012, 6:00pm – 7:30pm (Refreshments from 5:30pm)
VENUE: Lecture Theatre G08, Ground Floor, Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street, CARLTON
COST: Free of charge
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SEMINAR CONTACT: Michelle Wilson, IPRIA, Alan Gilbert Building, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010
Telephone: (03) 8344 2153 Fax: (03) 8344 2111
CMCL & ERRN (VIC) Joint Seminar: Election Talk: Issues in Election Communications Law and Practice in Australia, the United Kingdom and the Unites States
This presentation examines the response of three jurisdictions to these issues and from the perspective of deliberative democracy advocates a five element framework for the development of election communications law. Several superior court cases from each jurisdiction are assessed and the practice of election lawyers and regulators from across the three jurisdictions provide the basis of a socio-legal analysis of how election communications law is devised and practised.
Dr Murray Green is a Research Associate at the Communications Law Centre, University of Technology, Sydney. Until March this year he was Director International at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation where he had responsibility for Australian Network television, Radio Australia and ABC International Development. Murray was for ten years also responsible for the monitoring for accuracy and fairness in ABC election coverage of federal, state and territory elections. The topic of the seminar was his doctoral thesis at the Melbourne Law School. He is also a graduate in law from the University of New England and the Australian National University.
Murray's interests include legal and regulatory issues in a converged media environment as well as the development of media regulation in Asia and the Pacific.
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ANNOUNCING:
The
winner of the CMCL Medal 2011
Roxanne Burd, 'To Supress,
Or Not to Supress; Protecting the Right to a
Fair Trial in the Twenty-First Century'
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Net Neutrality: European and Comparative Approaches
Free public seminar presented by CMCL
Presented by Dr Chris Marsden
Net neutrality is a growing policy controversy, which must be traced in its policy history, examined and defined, and its two elements separated: the present net neutrality 'lite' debate and the emerging net neutrality 'heavy' concerned with fibre access networks in the future. In this talk, Dr Marsden will explain its past, explore the legislation and regulation of its present, and explain that economics and human rights will both play a part in its future. There are net neutrality laws in the Netherlands, Chile and Finland, regulation in the United States and Canada, co-regulation in Norway, and self-regulation in Japan, the United Kingdom and many other European countries. It is a debate which has existed for at least twelve years, and service quality increases with the demand on the network for more attractive fixed and mobile/wireless services.
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Keeping Secrets in Times of Weak Law
Full Day Conference presented by IPRIA and CMCL
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Dan Hunter, Professor of Law, Director of the Institute for Information Law & Policy, New York Law School
Dr Philip Williams, Chair, Frontier Economics, Melbourne
The Honorable Michael Kirby, AC CMG
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Brands and the Challenges of Grey Markets
Free panel discussion presented by IPRIA and CMCL
Panel Discussion featuring: Owen Malone, Don O'Sullivan, Susy Frankel and Vicki Huang. Chaired by Janice Luck.
Date: Wednesday 26 October 2011
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Bringing Open Justice to a New Level: Film Footage, Open Justice and the Media in England
Free public seminar presented by CMCL
This seminar is dedicated to recent developments in open justice in the courts in England and Wales.
The first session will focus on a Protocol from the Crown Prosecution Service that now allows disclosure to the media of material shown in court to the jury - such as CCTV footage or photographs – on the same day the material is shown in court. This Protocol has transformed court reporting and means television and newspaper reports can broadcast and publish what was seen in court that day. The talk will also look at other recent open justice issues such as the announcement by the Lord Chancellor that will lift the ban on filming in the courts, tweeting in court and disclosure of court documents to the media.
The second session will focus on developments in contempt of court in 2011 and related issues - the resurgence of the laws of contempt of court, the present position on suppression orders and the topical issue of super-injunctions.
Speaker: John Battle
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The CMCL Medal 2011
New Voices in Media
Law
The CMCL Medal seeks succinct,
innovative analyses of contemporary issues in
media law
Finalists:
Roxanne Burd, 'To Supress,
Or Not to Supress; Protecting the Right to a
Fair Trial in the Twenty-First Century'
Sara Phung, 'Function
Not Form: Protecting Sources of Bloggers'
Jessica Goulburn, 'Straw,
Sticks or Bricks- How to Stop the Big Bad Wolf
from Piggybacking'
Final Presentation Dinner
- Monday 5 September 2011
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