Telstra Corporation Limited v Phone Directories Company Pty Ltd

• 1. Intellectual Property
  2. › Copyright
  3. › Subsistence of copyright
  4. › Original literary work
  5. › Compilation
  6. › Whether compilation produced primarily by automated computer process is 'original' for copyright purposes
  7. › Whether human authorship required for originality
  8. › Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), ss 10(1), 22(1), 32(1), 32(2)(c)
• 1. Intellectual Property
  2. › Copyright
  3. › Authorship
  4. › Human authorship as requirement for copyright in works
  5. › Whether computer-generated selection, ordering and arrangement constitutes authorship
  6. › Distinction between works and subject-matter other than works
  7. › Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), ss 32, 33, 34, 35, 89, 90, 91, 92
• 1. Intellectual Property
  2. › Copyright
  3. › Compilations
  4. › Factual compilations
  5. › Telephone directories
  6. › Whether labour and expense of collecting information sufficient for originality
  7. › Role of 'industrious collection' after IceTV
  8. › Whether computer system was mere tool of authors
• 1. Intellectual Property
  2. › Copyright
  3. › Presumptions
  4. › Presumption of copyright subsistence under s 128
  5. › Whether presumption displaced by evidence establishing the contrary
  6. › Meaning of 'unless the contrary is established'
  7. › Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), s 128

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