It looks like it is going to be a big year. This year I will be back at University Of Wollongong teaching in the Arts Faculty – the same subject as last semester, ARTS301. I had tremendous feedback last semester from students. The subject is really about helping those about to graduate to understand how [...]
When I was fifteen, I slipped in a puddle of Nitric acid that had spilled onto the roadway in Wellington (New Zealand) from an insecure load. Of course when 90 proof Nitric Acid meets skin, usually the skin suffers second or third degree burns. It did and I was hospitalized for the [...]
The fastest growing and most successful Companies in the World are the proof against an increased attention by anyone to the importance of Copyright and Trademark. For sometime I have been lobbying hard against Australia’s involvement in ACTA. Lobbying Koltai? Is that what you call it? Well yes. I don’t have access in [...]
Sometimes when you are being serviced by a professional, you have to say “No, I don’t like what you are doing for me. I don’t like your charging regime and I certainly don’t like the lack of results that you are managing to achieve.” Most members of the public consider lawyers are Gods. They understand [...]
I was slammed into reality the other day by the fact that a Solicitor that I have known for many years who dealt in the area of the law known as Trade marks which falls under the auspices of Intellectual Property Law, got some basic knowledge about the Australian Copyright Legislation wrong. (No 'P' it's [...]
Flashback – 1999 – Sydney, Federal Courtroom 23B I carried a box with 5,382 page phone bill to court with me every day. I was ATA Telstra for what I like to term, “inaccurate billing practices”. The Judge upon sitting down would look over his courtroom and espy me and the box in front [...]
We have previously stated that P2P downloads of English movies are acting as a valuable ambassador of the English language and consumer lifestyle trends to the worlds hungriest P2P market, China. Today, we will be discussing that Cable Broadcasting stalwart, the World Movie Channel. Anyone who subscribes to the World Movies Channel will [...]
Media barons and some of the anointed (think glitterati, freemasons or whichever other conspiracy theory you subscribe to this week); spend a lot of time gnashing teeth these days…. In the inimitable voice of Peter Sellers, “ Oh dearie dearie me, we have let de cat out of de bag”, – how the hell [...]
In Ben Hur, we were introduced by Hollywood to the concept that some peoples idea of entertainment was pitting a man against a Tiger or Lion as a sport. All that happened was that the “cat” sated it’s enforced hunger by eating the only meat in it’s reach, which unfortunately for the Christian, was [...]
I just heard some of the numbers on YouTube from Ken Rutkowski. They are utterly amazing when you think about them – but I have to say that I was predicting this kind of growth several years ago. Still not as big in Australia as in the US, but once the NBN is up and [...]