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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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