Federal Court of Australia
COPYRIGHT TRIBUNAL OF AUSTRALIA
Audio-Visual Copyright Society Limited [2015] ACopyT 4 Citation: Audio-Visual Copyright Society Limited [2015] ACopyT 4
Parties: AUDIO-VISUAL COPYRIGHT SOCIETY LIMITED ACN 003 912 310
File number(s): CT 1 of 2015
Judge(s): BENNETT J (PRESIDENT)
Date of judgment: 16 October 2015
Catchwords: COPYRIGHT – government copy – where the proposed declaration expands the scope of the existing declaration to apply to material copied from the internet – revocation of existing declaration
Legislation: Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) ss 10, 153F, 153G, 153J, 182B(1), 183(1), 183A(1) Copyright Amendment Act (No 1) 1998 (Cth) Copyright (International Protection) Regulations 1969 (Cth) Copyright Tribunal (Procedure) Regulations 1969 (Cth) regs 18(2), 25C Copyright Regulations 1969 (Cth)
Date of hearing: 18 September 2015
Place: Sydney
Category: Catchwords
Number of paragraphs: 27
Solicitor for the Applicant: Mr P Banki of Banki Haddock Fiora
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA Copyright Act 1968 IN THE COPYRIGHT TRIBUNAL OF AUSTRALIA CT 1 of 2015
APPLICATION BY: AUDIO-VISUAL COPYRIGHT SOCIETY LIMITED ACN 003 912 310
TRIBUNAL: BENNETT J DATE OF ORDER: 16 october 2015 WHERE MADE: SYDNEY
EFFECTIVE TODAY
THE TRIBUNAL:
1. DECLARES Audio-Visual Copyright Society Limited ACN 003 912 310 (Screenrights) to be the collecting society under section 153F of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) for the purposes of Division 2 of Part VII in relation to government copies of the following classes of copyright material: (a) sound recordings; (b) cinematograph films; (c) television broadcasts or sound broadcasts, (together Audio-Visual Items); and (d) works included in an Audio-Visual Item, where the government copy was made: (i) from a communication to the public; or (ii) from any copy made from a communication to the public. 2. REVOKES the declaration of Screenrights dated 4 May 2000. 3. DIRECTS the Registrar to publish the revocation and declaration in The Australian Government Gazette.
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