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Explainer: can you copyright furniture?

  • Written by: Kylie Pappalardo, Lecturer, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology
Explainer: can you copyright furniture?The on-paper designs for furniture belong to the designer, just like any other artists. But things get more complicated when designs become physical objects. Shutterstock

Furniture stores are often filled with designs that look similar to others. But is copying furniture legal, and should we feel bad about buying replicas?

Recently, interior...

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How will Indigenous people be compensated for lost native title rights? The High Court will soon decide

  • Written by: William Isdale, Postgraduate Research Student, T.C. Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland

Today, the High Court of Australia will begin hearing the most significant case concerning Indigenous land rights since the Mabo and Wik native title cases in the 1990s.

For the first time, the High Court will consider how to approach the question of compensation for the loss of traditional land rights. The decision will have huge implications for...

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with more families in apartments, such attitudes are changing

  • Written by: Katrina Raynor, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Transforming Housing Project, University of Melbourne
with more families in apartments, such attitudes are changingMore families are living in high-rise apartments.from shutterstock.com

Australian cities are growing rapidly. Echoing international trends, higher-density housing will accommodate much of this growth in the inner city. Such housing – mostly apartments, townhouses and blocks of flats – is usually associated with young urban professionals...

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  2. Can we learn from the past in tackling witchcraft-related violence today?
  3. Introducing land rent, the ACT's excellent idea for making houses cheaper
  4. Facebook's new video 'Watch' option enters an already crowded market
  5. Minister for Women Kelly O'Dwyer says Liberals were "subject to threats" in leadership battle
  6. To whack the CFMMEU, Morrison needs first to get the right stick
  7. What is fake honey and why didn’t the official tests pick it up?
  8. When I met James Mirrlees, perhaps the word's greatest tax theorist
  9. Should writers only write what they know? What I learned from my research
  10. how has it come to this in Western democracies?
  11. Political leadership cannot be disentangled from collective psychology
  12. law professor Cass Sunstein, on why behavioural science is always nudging us
  13. what are nightshade vegetables and are they bad for you?
  14. Labor to propose new measures to put downward pressure on gas prices
  15. Dismissed under Mussolini, later Nobel prize winner – the importance of scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini
  16. Why splitting the energy and climate portfolios makes sense
  17. Five of the scariest antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the past five years
  18. A new project shows combining childcare and aged care has social and economic benefits
  19. The great movie scenes: Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette
  20. World politics explainer: The Great War (WWI)
  21. Full response from Mathias Cormann for a FactCheck on corporate tax cuts and the US economy
  22. have the Trump tax cuts led to lower unemployment and higher wages?
  23. Look up Australia, cable cars could ease our traffic woes
  24. Party leaders need to address federal parliament's intolerable workplace culture: Phelps
  25. How Australia can fix the market for plasma and save millions
  26. Australian universities to benefit in Australia-Indonesia free trade deal
  27. Don't believe what they say about inequality. Some of us are worse off
  28. Why the WA government is wrong to play identity politics with dingoes
  29. What does the Nine Fairfax merger mean for diversity and quality journalism?
  30. Peter Dutton's decisions on the au pairs are legal
  31. Michelle Grattan on the Liberals' leadership spill and the controversy around au pair visas
  32. whose name on the laws of physics for an expanding universe?
  33. Revised DrinkWise posters use clumsy language to dampen alcohol warnings
  34. What is a mobile network, anyway? This is 5G, boiled down
  35. Australian politics and the psychology of revenge
  36. Peter Corris's Cliff Hardy was a genuine Australian international crime fiction hero
  37. what role does ministerial discretion play in the Chelsea Manning visa case?
  38. For Pacific Island nations, rising sea levels are a bigger security concern than rising Chinese influence
  39. Children’s well-being goes hand in hand with their dads’ mental health
  40. why the UN has found Myanmar’s military committed genocide against the Rohingya
  41. Female corporate leaders make firms less likely to fall foul of environmental laws
  42. done right, awareness-raising days can pack a punch
  43. the art of the colonial kangaroo hunt
  44. why do our muscles stiffen as we age?
  45. how to provide suitable and affordable housing for ageing people
  46. When AI meets your shopping experience it knows what you buy – and what you ought to buy
  47. online retailing is changing our lives, whether we use it or not
  48. Leaks target Peter Dutton over decisions on au pairs
  49. The high costs of our destructive coup culture
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