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Legal Issues Arising from New Technologies and the Extent to Which the Judicial Remedies Available to Sort Issues

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Outline the legal issues emerging from new technology and evaluate the extent to which the remedies available achieve justice.
The rate of technological change in the last three decades has been extremely significant. Developments in new technology such as mobile phones, digital cameras, the Internet and email were not available 25 years ago. These changes have transformed our society but have also created a number of considerable issues for the legal system. Governments face many challenges in trying to make regulations and laws where technology is concerned. The main difficulty being that technology is constantly developing; therefore, it gives rise to an array of issues that have rarely or never been raised in political, legal or …show more content…

Intellectual property law protects the legal rights arising from a person’s intellectual creations.

Copyright law is part of a set of laws that are generally referred to as ‘intellectual property’ laws – or ‘IP’ for short.
IP laws are different to laws that involve physical property such as land and houses, fridges, watches and bicycles;
IP laws seek to protect something which can’t be touched or seen. Some other examples of IP laws include:
> patent (protects inventions and ways of doing things)
> designs (protects the look of industrially produced items)
> confidential information (protects secret ideas and information)
> plant breeder’s rights (protects plant varieties which people develop).

GENETIC TESTING EMPLOYEES:
9.23 Some legislation has adopted a slightly different approach in indicating those areas of public life covered. The RDA refers to specific areas,[14] but also contains a more general provision, based on the language of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination 1966. Section 9(1) of the RDA states in part that:
It is unlawful for a person to do any act involving a distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race … which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition … of any human right … in any field of public life.[15]
9.24 The Genetic Privacy and Non-discrimination Bill 1998 (Cth), which is discussed below, also adopted this approach.

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