Courts get tough on copyright compilers
15 February 2010
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Emma Barraclough, London
A decision by a court in Australia last week could make it harder for compilers of factual information to protect their work under copyright law
In the Federal Court case
Telstra Corporation v Phone Directories Company
, Justice Gordon ruled that there was no copyright in Yellow and White Pages after Telstra and Sensis had accused the defendants of breaching their IP rights by reproducing entries in the two directories.
The decision comes almost a year after the High Court ruled in
IceTV v Nine Network
that IceTV, an independent producer...
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