Is there copyright in a directory produced by a computer? The Telstra case
The Full Court of Australia released it’s decision in the Telstra Corporation Limited v Phone Directories Company Pty Ltd [2010] FCAFC 149 case. It dismissed Telstra’s appeal.
The case examined whether white and yellow pages directories are protected by copyright when the original efforts of creating a work are produced through a computerized process.
The Court acknowledged that after the High Court decision in the IceTV case that a work is only original if it is the result of some intellectual effort.…
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