{"id":434,"date":"2010-09-28T03:31:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T03:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp3.thomsonreuters.net.au\/journals\/?p=434"},"modified":"2010-09-28T03:31:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T03:31:31","slug":"blackmagic-in-the-federal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/2010\/09\/28\/blackmagic-in-the-federal-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackmagic in the Federal Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Stephanie Vass and Brett Watson*<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Court of Australia has upheld prohibitions against employees using confidential information gained in the course of their employment in <em>Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd v Ian Overliese, Jeromy Young, Atomos Audio Pty Ltd and Clare Young<\/em> (2010) 84 IPR 505. The judgment is also important as it emphasised the need for employers to be specific when creating non-competition and copyright obligations for employees under employment contracts.<\/p>\n<p>The full article can be accessed here: &#8220;Blackmagic in the Federal Court&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/09\/WR-1.2_VassWatson.pdf\">(2010) 1 WR 54<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*At the time of writing this article, Stephanie Vass was a Partner of Piper Alderman; at the time of publication, Stephanie was the Group General Counsel and Head of People and Development, RESIMAC Limited. Brett Watson, Law Clerk, Piper Alderman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stephanie Vass and Brett Watson.  The Federal Court of Australia has upheld prohibitions against employees using confidential information gained in the course of their employment in Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd v Overliese. The judgment also emphasised the need for employers to be specific when creating non-competition and copyright obligations for employees under employment contracts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[163,164,165,166,167,168,169,170,162],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workplace-review","tag-blackmagic-design-pty-ltd-v-overliese","tag-confidential-information","tag-copyright","tag-corporations-act-2001","tag-employment-contract","tag-equitable-damages","tag-misleading-conduct","tag-non-competition","tag-wr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}