Greenpeace
Greenpeace Australia Pacific and AGL will face off in the Federal Court in Sydney on 2 June 2021 in a landmark case that could determine the ability of charities to use corporate logos for the purpose of satire, parody and criticism.
At a directions hearing in the Federal Court today, a date was set for the court showdown between the energy giant and the environmental charity. This comes after AGL requested last week that the court order the urgent removal of its logo from Greenpeace’s campaign which alleges that AGL is “Australia’s biggest corporate climate polluter” on the basis that the use of the logo allegedly infringed AGL’s copyright and trademark. On Friday the court refused to grant this interim order.