Early next year the full bench of the Australian High Court will hand down a ruling that will determine whether Australians will get access to a full EPG service. (See background to story).

If Ice TV win their case, companies like Cisco, Microsoft and HP will start delivering a full EPG service with their media centre and media centre extender offerings.

In the most recent copyright case bought by the Australian Federation against Copyright Theft, who represent several Hollywood Studio's an academic lawyer at Queensland University says the copyright "test case" against ISP iiNet "stretches" even the widened interpretation of Australian copyright law that resulted from the Sharman (Kazaa) case ­ but hinges on whether the respondents have "responsibility" for ensuring its subscribers do not download pirated material.

In a long blog on the Lawfont site, senior lecturer Kimberlee Weatherall, of the TC Beirne School of law, analyses the legal ins and outs of the action brought on behalf of 34 copyright owners of films and TV programs by the Australian Federation against Copyright Theft.

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