A-One Accessory Imports Pty Ltd & Ors v Off Road Imports Pty Ltd & Ors [1996] FCA 225

CATCHWORDS COPYRIGHT - "original literary work" - trade catalogue of motor cycle parts - compilation consisting of existing material, correction to that material and some new material - originality - whether selection involves sufficient skill, judgment and labour. COPYRIGHT - originality - whether compilation of pirated and original material, can be an original work, even though copyright in the pirated material infringed - necessity for qualitatively significant changes to the copied material. COPYRIGHT - originality - new edition of compilation - need for more than a trivial difference between new edition and previous one. COPYRIGHT - originality - compilation - look at compilation as an entity, not at individual parts. COPYRIGHT - authorship - directors of company - whether company is beneficial owner of copyright in work prepared by directors - directors as trustees for company of copyright in their work. COPYRIGHT - infringement - compilation - including original and non-original work - copying only non-original elements does not infringe copyright in the whole - but copying entire sections, including original and non-original work, constitutes infringement. Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) - ss 10, 14, 32, 32(1), 35, 35(2), 35(6), 36, 196 Corporations Law - s 576 Cases Considered Antocks Lairn Ltd v I Bloohn Ltd [1971] FSR 490 Blackie & Sons Ltd v The Lothian Book Publishing Company Pty Ltd (1921) 29 CLR 396 Collis v Cater, Stoffell & Fortt Ltd (1898) 78 LT 613 Dixon Investments Pty Ltd v Hall (1990) 18 IPR 490 Football League Ltd v Littlewoods Pools Ltd [1959] Ch 637 H Blacklock & Co Limited v C Arthur Pearson Limited [1915] 2 Ch 376 Interlego A.G. v Tyco Industries Inc [1989] 1 AC 217 Ladbroke (Football) Ltd v William Hill (Football) Ltd [1964] 1 WLR 273 Macmillan & Co Ltd v K & J Cooper (1924) 130 LT 675 Macmillan v Suresh Chunder Deb (1900) 1 Ind LR, 17 C 951 Purefoy Engineering Co Ltd v Sykes Boxall & Co Ltd (1955) 72 RPC 89 Real Estate Institute of New South Wales v Wood (1923) 23 SR(NSW) 349 Redwood Music Ltd v Chappell & Co Ltd [1982] RPC 109 University of London Press Ltd v University Tutorial Press Ltd [1916] 2 Ch 601 Warwick Film Productions Ltd v Eisinger [1969] 1 Ch 508 A-One Accessory Imports Pty Ltd & Ors v Off Road Imports Pty Ltd & Ors QG 111 of 1993 Drummond J Brisbane 27 March 1996