Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Foxtel Management Pty Limited v The Mod Shop Pty Limited [2007] FCA 463
COPYRIGHT – signal piracy ‑ unauthorised programming and sale of smartcards – using authentic Foxtel smartcards for card sharing purposes – whether respondents engaged in actionable conduct under s 135AN and s 135ANA of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) – whether senior employees liable for actionable conduct of the company – whether the second applicant made an 'encoded broadcast' – whether devices made and sold were 'broadcast decoding devices' – compensatory damages – additional damages
TRADE PRACTICES – whether advertisements were misleading
Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) ss 101(1A), 135AL, 135AN(1), 135AN(5), 135ANA(1) Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) s 52 Fair Trading Act 1987 (WA) s 10
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FOXTEL MANAGEMENT PTY LIMITED (ACN 068 671 938) AND FOXTEL CABLE TELEVISION PTY LIMITED (ACN 069 008 797) v THE MOD SHOP PTY LIMITED (ACN 008 913 013), THE MOD SHOP BELMONT PTY LIMITED (ACN 106 095 890), THE MOD SHOP INNALOO PTY LIMITED (ACN 106 095 881), THE MOD SHOP PALMYRA PTY LIMITED (ACN 106 095 872), FOUAD HADDAD (ALSO KNOWN AS 'PHILLIP HADDAD'), TRACY LEANNE HADDAD, JAMILEE HADDAD, YURI KOLKER, KEENAN KELLY (ALSO KNOWN AS 'JAMES BENDA'), CRAIG ANTHONY WALL NSD 912 OF 2004
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