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Is it OK to Use Trade Marks in Adwords, Keywords and Metatags?
Trade marks can be used in hidden text In March 2016 Her Honour Justice Katzmann made it very clear that using a competitor’s trade mark in the unseen back end of your online advertising accounts is not a breach of trade mark law, nor is it misleading or...
Unfair Contract Terms – B2B Contracts Under Investigation
Is your business in line for an ACCC investigation? From November 2016, business to business transactions came within the coverage of some provisions of the Australian Consumer Law. The big change was the application of unfair contract terms to business to business...
Internet Piracy Laws Australia
How do Australian anti-piracy laws work? As a small or medium business, stopping internet piracy of your content involves a claim under Copyright Law, after you have asked someone to 'cease and desist' stealing your material. Since mid-2015, Australian ISPs (internet...
Transition from Onyx Online Law to Onyx Legal
Transition From Onyx Online Law to Onyx Legal We have a new name! From the beginning of 2019 we will be transitioning from Onyx Online Law to Onyx Legal. Why? Well, as a forward looking business we give strategic consideration each year to where we are headed, and...
GDPR for business outside Europe
If your business is not in Europe, should you be worried about GDPR? GDPR has the potential to impact any business that might be doing business with a European resident, whether the business is online or not. This article covers some of the most frequently asked...
Are you Cryptomining?
is crypto mining illegal? Do you remember the old Lemmings computer game? It came out in around the early nineties. Lots of tiny blue and green figures with pick-axes trying to work their way through tunnels and mounds without falling off cliffs. That's the picture...
Lawyers v. Smart Contracts & Templates
If you have anything unique about your business or the deal that you are trying to achieve, then a lawyer can help you to cover everything that needs to be covered in your agreement, rather than relying on a template full of gaps.
What is a Mandatory Data Breach Notification for Privacy? – FAQs
Do mandatory data breach notifications apply to you? If you are in Australia and collect personal information from clients, customers, suppliers, partners or anyone else for that matter, then maybe they do. But a compliance perspective, these laws don't affect...
Avoid copyright infringement with Facebook Live
On 3 February 2017, Australian television broadcaster Foxtel televised a highly anticipated boxing match between two well-known boxers, Danny Green and Anthony Mundine. To watch the fight, viewers were required to subscribe through Foxtel and pay a fee to watch the...
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