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Free speech: Hicks should keep his memoir profits
David Hicks should be able to keep the profits from his memoir. The law which confiscates literary proceeds of crime is a bad law. It's a bad law...
It's Friday. Are you even aware of what else today is?
Most of us should be pretty happy it's Friday - even if it means the end of Tourette Syndrome Awareness Week. (Tourette Syndrome is never, ever...
Be afraid: criminal counterfeiting is on the rise
In between the death of one of the world's best known unregistered trademarks being assassinated by the US and the copyright commons text of the...
Trademark rights to extinguish plain packaging bill?
The content of the government's release on the draft plain packaging Bill offers few surprises. The government thinks stripping tobacco products of...
Plain packaging ploy likely to go up in smoke
Turning public debate from the failed emissions trading scheme to universally despised tobacco emissions is a media masterstroke from Kevin Rudd,...
A patent Copenhagen solution
India's negotiating position on intellectual property (IP) at the Copenhagen climate change conference might be good politics, but it's unlikely to...
Copenhagen Summit And World Trade
Any agreement from the Copenhagen climate change conference is likely to amplify the ‘green' threat to wealth-creating free trade that is...
Not the Voice to Sell Our Values
In last Thursday's Bruce Allen Memorial Lecture, ABC managing director Mark Scott called for a significant expansion of the ABC as a global media...
Death of author unlikely
The biggest barrier to the Australian book industry's success won't be the demise of parallel import restrictions; it'll be the cultural cringe...
Readers pay a price for authors' greed
The campaign by wealthy Australian authors such as Tim Winton and Bryce Courtenay against reforms that would enable Australians to buy cheaper...