In Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Voller; Nationwide News Pty Limited v Voller; Australian News Channel Pty Ltd v Voller [2021] HCA 27 the High Court of Australia confirmed that by posting content relating to news stories about Mr
High Court defamation decision on social media pages
Administrators are ‘publishers’
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The High Court has confirmed that the administrators of public social media pages are ‘publishers’ of comments posted by third parties and members of the public on their page, for the purposes of defamation
New Zealand Court Says No To NZME-Fairfax Media Merger
New Zealand’s High Court has upheld a ruling by the country’s Commerce Commission banning a merger between the media company NZME and Fairfax Media, agreeing with the Commission that such a merger would concentrate media power and threaten the nation’s
Sports Broadcasts and ‘fair dealing’ – the 8 second rule.
It will be well known to the readers of this blog that media companies will pay eye watering amounts of money for the rights to broadcast major sporting events. It is reported that the most valuable of these deals are