Desktop Marketing Systems Pty Ltd v Telstra Corporation Limited [2002] FCAFC 112

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Desktop Marketing Systems Pty Ltd v Telstra Corporation Limited [2002] FCAFC 112 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – subsistence of copyright – respondent produces telephone directories requiring expenditure of significant time and financial resources – whether the factual compilations comprising the directories meet the threshold requirement of originality in Australian copyright law – whether the headings books developed by the respondent attract copyright protection. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – infringement of copyright – whether appellant reproduced a substantial part of the respondent's copyright telephone directories and headings books in appellant's database – actual copying from directories and headings in directories admitted – whether visual similarity an essential element of infringement.

United States Constitution, Art I, §8, cl 8 Commonwealth of Australia Constitution, s 51(xviii)

Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) ss 10(1), 14, 31, 32 Copyright Act 1911 (UK) ss 1(1), 35 Copyright Act of 1976 (US) §§ 101, 102, 103 Copyright Act of 1909 (US) § 5 Copyright Act 1985 (Can) s 2 North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act 1993 (Can) Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth), s 25(2) Telecommunications Act 1997 (Cth), ss 3(1), 52, 56, 57, 63 Circuit Layouts Act 1989 (Cth) Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997 (UK)

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works discussed Berlin Convention 1908

Carrier Licence Conditions (Telstra Corporation Limited) Declaration 1997, cll 9, 10

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