Thursday, July 30, 2009
update in the Men at Work case
http://www.theage.com.au/national/men-at-work-one-step-closer-to-losing-royalties-20090730-e28k.html
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
More on real estate regulation
Estate agent conduct also in Graeme Samuel's sights
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/19/2629940.htm
The full text of the bill is here
Essentially one of the proposals is that s new section 76E be inserted, providing for pecuniary penalties, for breaches of 'a provision of Division 1 of Part V (other than s52)'.
This means that breaches of the various specific false/misleading representation provisions (including 'aiding/abetting/inducing etc') in s53 would potentially give rise to substantial penalties.
This change obviously goes well beyond misconduct by real estate agents.
Real Estate Underquoting
Last year I conducted some research on behalf of the Victorian Department of Justice, Consumer Affairs Victoria.
The report from this research has recently been released and is available here:
Some media coverage of enforcement actions by Consumer Affairs Victoria arising from alleged underquoting here:
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Google's Real Estate Advertising
Posts have been thin on the ground for the last three weeks, while I
have been teaching and traveling in Italy.
have been teaching and traveling in Italy.
This story is an interesting one, the whole 'content from aggregators'
issue comes up again, intertwined with the bi-polar position that
Google (and other companies) seems to be in from time to time -
partner/provider on one hand and competitor on the other.
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