Music promoter wins $225,000: Trkulja v Yahoo! Inc LLC & Yahoo! 7 Pty Ltd [2012] VSC 88
Michael Trkulja was born in Yugoslavia in 1950. He migrated to Australia at 20 and in the early 1970s, while working in a travel agency business, began promoting singers and entertainers in the Yugoslav community. His work as a music promoter grew and he ultimately became a music promoter who worked full-time and became well-known. He regularly appeared in the media, particularly the ethnic media and in the 1990s had his own television show on Channel 31, “Micky’s Folkfest”. The purpose of the show was to unite the local Yugoslav community, and the evidence was that he became so well known that around 90% of the Yugloslav community (300,000 – 400,000 people), would have known him.