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Cases 1996 to 2000
This page supplements the Intellectual Property Guide
elsewhere on this site, identifying major copyright law
rulings by courts and tribunals since 1995, along with
pointers to selected academic studies.
It covers -
Milpurrurru
1996 King v Milpurrurru - Federal Court case
| 66 FCR 474 (1996) 136 ALR 327
Retransmission
1996 Amalgamated Television Services Pty Ltd v Foxtel
Digital Cable Pty Ltd - retransmission
Carmina Burana case
1997 Schott Music International Gmbh v Colossal Record
of Australasia Pty Ltd - Federal Court decision
on moral rights | 531 FCA
(19 June 1997) See Anthony Hutchings's 1997 Sydney
Law Review article
'Authors, Art, and the Debasing Instinct: Law and Morality
in the Carmina Burana Case'
Sega
1997 Galaxy Electronics v Sega Enterprises Ltd
decision - Federal Court regards computer games as 'cinematograph
film'
Music on Hold
1997 Telstra Corporation Ltd v Australasian Performing
Right Association Ltd - High Court decision
on transmission right ('music on hold case')
PPCA v FACTS
1998 Phonographic Performance Company of Australia
Ltd v Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations
- unauthorised reproduction of soundtrack as infringement
of film copyright
Textiles Case
1998 Bulun Bulun v R&T Textiles Pty Ltd - Federal
Court decision
on indigenous IP ('textiles case')
CAL v Uni of Adelade
1999 Copyright Agency Ltd v University of Adelaide
- Copyright Tribunal decision on royalty rates
Business Boost
2000 in Microsoft Corp v Business Boost Pty Ltd
- High Court decision
that copying copyright material to a hard disk or into
a computer's RAM is a "reproduction in material form"
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