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It’s over: High Court will not hear Kookaburra v Down Under copyright appeal

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • November 30 2011

The coda of the ‘Kookaburra’ v ‘Down Under’ saga has finally been played

Full Court decides on appeal that a substantial part of “Kookaburra” was copied in Men at Work’s “Down Under”

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • June 21 2011

The battle between two iconic Australian musical works continued in the appeal proceedings before the full Court of the federal Court of Australia comprising Justices Emmett, Jagot and Nicholas

EMI unsuccessful in "Kookaburra" copyright infringement appeal Down Under

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • April 7 2011

EMI has lost an appeal to the full bench of the Federal Court against an earlier ruling that Men at Work's famous pop anthem "Down Under" infringed the copyright in an iconic Australian nursery rhyme

The Anti- Counterfeiting Trade Agreement finally unveiled

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • April 2 2011

On 16 November 2010, the Australian Minister for Trade, the Honourable Dr Craig Emerson MP, announced that after three years of trade negotiations between 37 countries1, the text of the Anti- Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was concluded2

Comment invited on proposed amendments to Australian customs seizure regime

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • March 16 2011

The Australian Government has announced its intention to amend Australia's existing intellectual property laws to, among other things, "improve mechanisms for trade mark and copyright enforcement in Australia"

Larrikin awarded 5 of Down Under royalties for Kookaburra contribution

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • July 15 2010

In a judgment handed down on 6 July 2010 (Larrikin Music Publishing Pty Ltd v EMI Songs Australia Pty Ltd (No 2) 2010 FCA 698), Jacobson J of the Federal Court ruled on Larrikin's entitlement to a share of the income collected by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS