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Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia Working Paper No. 01/2005 The New Right of Communication in Australia by Andrew F. Christie and Eloise Dias Date: February 2005 Abstract: A new right of communication to the public was introduced into Australian copyright law in 2000, to implement Article 8 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty.This paper provides a detailed conceptualisation of this new right and the Treaty article on which it is based, and answers questions about when, where and by whom a communication to the public occurs in the context of transmission of a copyright work over the Internet. It is found that the Australian communication right has an extraterritorial effect that is both outward and inward. Most, if not all, uploading and downloading of a copyright work anywhere in the world will constitute an exercise of that right. Downloads: PDF [568K] |
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