Burge v Swarbrick
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Judge | Gleeson CJ,Gummow,Kirby,Heydon,Crennan JJ |
| Judgment Date | 26 April 2007 |
| Neutral Citation | [2007] HCA 17,2007-0426 HCA A |
| Court | High Court |
| Docket Number | P24/2006 |
| Date | 26 April 2007 |
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17 cases
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Lucasfilm Ltd v Ainsworth
...is a composite phrase which must be construed as a whole, and that view has had recent support from the High Court of Australia ( Swarbrick v Burge (2007) 232 CLR 21 Section 22 of the 1911 Act provided as follows: "(1) This Act shall not apply to designs capable of being registered under th......
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JT International SA v Commonwealth of Australia
...Australian Tape Manufacturers Association Ltd v The Commonwealth (1993) 176 CLR 480 at 527 per Dawson and Toohey JJ; Burge v Swarbrick (2007) 232 CLR 336 at 344 [15]; [2007] HCA 17; Phonographic Performance Co of Australia Ltd v The Commonwealth (2012) 86 ALJR 335 at 352 [109] per Crennan a......
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IceTV Pty Ltd v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd
...Telephone Service Co, Inc 499 US 340 at 357 (1991). 95 Copyright Act RSC 1985, ch C- 42, s 2. 100 Burge v Swarbrick (2007) 232 CLR 336 ; [2007] HCA 17. 96 8 Fed Cas 615 97 (1917) 23 CLR 49 at 56; [1917] HCA 14. 98 See Commonwealth Industrial Gases Ltd v MWA Holdings Pty Ltd (1970) 180 CLR 1......
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6 firm's commentaries
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Copyright protection in the bag? Think again.
...and deceptive conduct. Did copyright subsist in the Escape Bag? Applying the principles set out by the High Court in Burge v Swarbrick [2007] HCA 17, Justice Jennifer Davies found that because central functionality was in the design of the Escape Bag, it could not be considered a work of ar......
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To Register Or Not To Register? State Of Escape Decision Reinforces The Importance Of Securing Design Registration Over Attempts To Rely On Copyright
...challenges. Footnotes 1. [2022] FCAFC 63. 2. George Hensher Ltd v Restawile Upholstery (Lancs) Ltd [1976] AC 64; Burge v Swarbrick (2007) 232 CLR 336 3. George Hensher Ltd v Restawile Upholstery (Lancs) Ltd [1976] AC 64. 4. Burge; Coogi Australia Pty Ltd v Hysport International Pty Ltd (199......
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To Register Or Not...? State Of Escape Decision Reinforces Value Of Design Registration Over Attempts To Rely On Copyright
...challenges. Footnotes 1. [2022] FCAFC 63. 2. George Hensher Ltd v Restawile Upholstery (Lancs) Ltd [1976] AC 64; Burge v Swarbrick (2007) 232 CLR 336 3. George Hensher Ltd v Restawile Upholstery (Lancs) Ltd [1976] AC 64. 4. Burge; Coogi Australia Pty Ltd v Hysport International Pty Ltd (199......
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Technology, Media and Commercial Bulletin
...its strong stance against spamming activity in Australia. Works of artistic craftsmanship: Burge v Swarbrick In Burge v Swarbrick [2007] HCA 17, the High Court considered the meaning of a 'work of artistic craftsmanship' and the interaction between copyright and design Swarbrick, the design......
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3 books & journal articles
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Intellectual property
...the operation of Canadian copyright law). As to the meaning of the expression “artistic works” generally, see Burge v Swarbrick [2007] HCA 17. See also Bridge, Candi and Wyburn, “Copyright and Architecture” (1987) 3 BCL 94; Wheeler, “Copyright in Construction Drawings and Works of Architect......
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Works of Artistic Craftsmanship in the High Court of Australia: The Exception as Paradigm Copyright Work
...Senior Research Associate (and Interim Director), Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre. Email: justine.pila@law.ox.ac.uk. 1 (2007) 232 CLR 336 ('Burge'). 2 [1976] AC 64 ('Hensher'). 3 Burge (2007) 232 CLR 336, 353 (quoting from Coogi Australia Pty Ltd v Hysport International Pty Ltd......
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An Intentional View of the Copyright Work
...of their client, Mr Goddard.70Cast in that light, the decision recalls the later principle of Laddie J in Metix63 BurgevSwarbrick [2007] HCA 17 at [62].64 See [2007] HCA 17 at [60] (making it clear that whatever the case at the turn of the nineteenthcentury, in 2007 ‘aprototype. . . mightqu......