Actor Geoffrey Rush has won a bid to strike down one of Nationwide News’ defences in a defamation case brought by the actor.
Whether Google is liable as a publisher for defamatory content that pops up in search engine results is the question before the High Court on Tuesday, and the answer could drastically alter the way large Internet companies do business.
A judge has ordered the former head of collapsed vocational training organisation Australian Careers Network to foot the legal bill of Nationwide News, likely to exceed $ 1 million, for a defamation case he brought and lost.
Australia’s biggest media companies want to lend their weight to an appeal by Bauer Media of a historic $4.5 million award handed to actor Rebel Wilson last year in a defamation case.
A Federal Court judge has ordered that newspaper articles that the president of the Australian Imams Council, Sheikh Shady Alsuleiman, claims are defamatory of him be removed from several News Corp. websites.
The competition regulator on Wednesday released updated guidelines for media merger reviews, saying key to its analysis would be competition and media diversity, the impact of new technology and access to premium content.