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Lead role in legal drama
A costume-hire service is at a loss to know what to do with eight 2.5m-tall Oscar statues after legal threats from the US.
Gorillaz aped my song, says furious Eddy Grant
Reggae musician Eddy Grant claims Gorillaz flogged the melody from one of his songs for new single Stylo.
Police fail to find source of leaked Brash emails
Don Brash says he appreciates police efforts to find who was behind his emails being given to a journalist, but accepts the culprit will probably never be found.
$15,000 penalty for web downloads
Anyone caught breaching copyright by downloading films and music from the internet will face large penalties under new legislation.
Facebook at work problems growing, say employers
A new survey of 520 NZ companies finds 67 per cent have no policies to regulate staff use of social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter.
Furniture makers push iconic Kiwi design
Blair McKolskey is brimming with ideas for the future of furniture manufacturing in New Zealand.
Pay what you want, or in our case - nothing!
At the start of this year to stimulate some thoughts around marketing, I offered via my blog Pay What You Want marketing advice - a world first.
Plagiarists 'like drug cheats'
A doyen of NZ literature has compared plagiarism to drug cheating in sport because of the unfair advantage it gives over contemporaries.
Ihimaera row should be taken seriously - CK Stead
CK Stead has criticised Auckland University for minimising the seriousness of the Witi Ihimaera plagiarism controversy.