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Copyright claim against ABC TV’s rage turns on ownership
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- Australia
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- November 17 2010
A recent decision of the Federal Court emphasises two key factors that copyright litigants should keep in mind: they must be able to establish they performed the acts that qualify them as owners of the copyright they claim has been infringed, and they must bring their claim within six years of the infringement
UK High Court finds copyright in newspaper headlines; Fairfax distinguished
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- Australia, United Kingdom
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- December 14 2010
In a decision with strikingly similar facts yet markedly different findings to September's Federal Court decision of Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Reed International Books Australia Pty Ltd, the UK High Court has ruled that newspaper headlines are capable of copyright protection and that users of online media-monitoring services will infringe the copyright of newspaper publishers unless they obtain an appropriate licence
Larrikin awarded 5 of Down Under royalties for Kookaburra contribution
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- Australia
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- 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
Google faces French copyright fine for not removing infringing videos
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- France
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- March 24 2011
Less than two weeks after Attorney-General Robert McLelland flagged the expansion of Australia's safe-harbour protections to include user-generated content distributors such as Google and Yahoo!, a Paris appeals court has found that Google infringed the copyrights of three documentary producers and an unidentified photographer, despite the availability of a similar 'mere conduit' defence under the European Directive on Electronic Commerce
Roadshow Films appeals iiNet copyright decision to the High Court
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- Australia
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- March 28 2011
Following on from last month's loss in the Full Federal Court against Australian internet service provider iiNet, Roadshow Films and other members of the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) have applied for special leave to appeal the copyright decision to the High Court
Three strikes policy for copyright infringement lands in New Zealand. Is Australia next?
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- Australia, New Zealand
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- May 30 2011
The New Zealand parliament has amended the Copyright Act 1994 (NZ) to introduce a 'three strikes' policy towards infringing file sharing that will see repeat infringers fined NZ$15,000 or disconnected from the internet for up to six months
It’s over: High Court will not hear Kookaburra v Down Under copyright appeal
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- Australia
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- November 30 2011
The coda of the ‘Kookaburra’ v ‘Down Under’ saga has finally been played
Roadshow v iiNet: landmark copyright infringement authorisation case set for High Court
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- Australia
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- September 8 2011
The Australian High Court has granted special leave to Roadshow Films and other members of the Australian Federation against Copyright Theft (AFACT) to appeal the decision of the Full Federal Court handed down in February this year, in the long-running copyright dispute with Australian internet service provider iiNet
Australian radio stations not required to pay copyright royalties to simulcast online
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- Australia
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- February 24 2012
The Federal Court of Australia has recently determined that a simulcast is a "broadcast" within the meaning of the term in the Copyright Act, and as such, falls within the scope of non-exclusive broadcasting licences issued to Australian commercial radio stations by the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia ("PPCA"
Fed court: Optus didn't infringe copyright, but AFL can liken it to "stealing"
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- Australia
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- March 6 2012
The copyright dispute involving Australian telecommunications provider Optus and Australian digital sports broadcasting rights holders recently took on a new twist as Optus and the Australian Football League (AFL) returned to Court to ventilate fresh allegations against each other
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