Author: Winnie Lok

Midjourney, I am your plaintiff: Disney and Universal sue AI platform for copyright infringement

Episode I: what is Midjourney? Midjourney is a subscription-based generative AI platform that creates images from text prompts submitted by its users. The subscription levels range from $10 to $120 per month. Similar to many other ...

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Unfair contract terms: a year in review

Background The Australian Consumer Law (ACL) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) provides protections to consumers and small businesses against unfair contract terms (UCT Regime). The UCT Regime first ...

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Spamalanche: when inbox overflow leads to penalty blow

It’s a spamalanche In 2023, businesses paid almost $10 million in penalties for breaching the Spam Act 2003 (Cth) (Spam Act). This involved breaches by household names including Kmart, Ticketek, DoorDash and the Commonwealth Bank ...

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Don’t get swept up in ACCC’s influencer crackdown.

Each year, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announces its Compliance and Enforcement Priorities. In 2022-23, one of its priorities was to identify deceptive marketing practices across the digital ...

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New AANA Food & Beverages Advertising Code

Key takeaways The Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA) has announced that a new Food and Beverages Advertising Code, together with an accompanying practice note, will take effect on 1 November 2021. The new ...

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