New Zealand

International Agreement, Jurisdiction, Liability, New Zealand

(Victoria University of Wellington)/ /Leave a comment

In late 2020, the Supreme Court of New Zealand gave judgment on copyright aspects of the dispute on whether Kim Dotcom and other’s involved in the Megagroup businesses should be extradited from New Zealand to the United States because of criminal copyright infringement. This episode, in a case which has involved multiple legal contests, was…

Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA

(Monash University), (Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia), and (Monash University)/ /2 Comments

Copyright’s underuse hypothesis is simple: that, unless publishers are assured of exclusive rights in older works, they won’t continue to invest in making them available. This of course contradicts a core tenet of classical economic theory, that investors will continue to produce copies of books (or anything else) so long as they can expect to…