The business database is a valuable commodity. However without adequate legal protection the economic incentives required to invest in their creation, ongoing updating and maintenance will be absent. The underlying objectives of many business databases can only be achieved if they are made...

National libraries, museums, and archives have traditionally preserved non-digital cultural entities for future generations, supported by laws permitting them to override legal rights of owners of cultural works in the public interest. As much of today’s cultural material and information is...

The Major Events Management Act 2007 (“the MEMA” ) is intended to prevent the practice of ambush marketing in New Zealand in connection with “… major events that are of international significance.” The Act applies to any event in New Zealand that is declared to be a major event....

Governance of top level country code domain names (ccTLDs) varies from country to country – however, there are two broad models. The open governance model allows the ccTLD to be purchased and used by any individual or organisation. The second model is protective, imposing rules regarding...

This chapter considers whether country code top level domain names (ccTLDs) are an emerging area of sui generis intellectual property. Categorising ccTLDs as sui generis intellectual property would facilitate their removal from oversight by ICANN and provide the opportunity for international...

Creative Commons licences were developed in 2002 as a response to what was viewed by the United States based Creative Commons movement as the increasingly restrictive influence of copyright law upon creative culture. The movement sought to develop a constructive alternative to copyright that...

Vertical separation of upstream network operations from downstream retail activities, as the most extreme form of access regulation, has long been considered a legitimate regulatory remedy against use of market power in upstream infrastructure markets to engage in price- and non-price...