The regulation of orphan works has stalled in many countries. This is mainly due to the complexity of the issues surrounding these works and the corresponding difficulties of providing a comprehensive legislative solution. Yet the problems created by orphan works affect distinct categories of...

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...

On April 15 2008 the New Zealand Parliament passed the third reading of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Bill ("the Bill") amending the Copyright Act 1994. As part of its provisions the Bill proposed the insertion of new s 92A in the Act requiring the new commercial transmission...