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Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Reed International Books Australia Pty Ltd

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JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation2010-0907 FCA B
Date2010
CourtFederal Court
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7 cases
  • The Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd v Meltwater Holding BV
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 26 November 2010
    ...and Designs (3 rd Ed 2000) (at [28]-[50])) by Bennett J in the Federal Court of Australia in Fairfax Media Publications Pty Limited v. Reed International Books Australia Pty Limited [2010] FCA 62 Fairfax is the only authority directly to address the status in copyright law of a headline in......
  • The Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd v Meltwater Holding BV
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 July 2011
    ...protection for titles to books and similar matters. Amongst them was the decision of Bennett J in Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Reed International Books Australia Pty Ltd [2010] FCA 984 which, as she pointed out in paragraph 62 of her judgment, is the only one in which a newspaper h......
  • Dreamstreet Lending Pty Ltd v Weiss (No 2)
    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • 23 June 2023
    ...Ltd v Tonnex International Pty Ltd (2011) 91 IPR 488 Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Reed International Books Australia Pty Ltd (2010) 189 FCR 109 Fightvision Pty Ltd v Onisforou (1999) 47 NSWLR 473 Findex Group Ltd v McKay [2020] FCAFC 182 Foran v Wight (1989) 168 CLR 385 Futuretronic......
  • AGL Energy Limited v Greenpeace Australia Pacific Limited
    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • 8 June 2021
    ...Pty Limited (No 3) [2014] FCA 909; 312 ALR 705 Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Reed International Books Australia Pty Ltd [2010] FCA 984; 189 FCR 109 IceTV Pty Limited v Nine Network Australia Pty Limited [2009] HCA 14; 239 CLR 458 MID Sydney Pty Ltd v Australian Tourism Co Ltd [1998] ......
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7 firm's commentaries
  • New Media, Technology and the Law (January 2011)
    • United States
    • Mondaq United States
    • 23 January 2011
    ...Headlines Not Entitled to Copyright Protection Opinion: Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Reed International Books Australia Pty Ltd [2010] FCA 984 (7 September French Court Finds Google and CEO Liable for Defamation for Search Results Associated with Plaintiff's Name News Report Canadia......
  • Is this headline protected by copyright? Federal Court says no as Fairfax loses copyright infringement case.
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 22 November 2010
    ...Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Reed International Books Australia Pty Limited [2010] FCA 984, the Federal Court held that newspaper headlines are not substantial enough to qualify for copyright protection and that even if they are, their reproduction by news aggregating services, incl......
  • Nietzsche has Kanye West's back in rap battle -- US copyright case test originality of song lyrics
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 28 November 2012
    ...5 Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 12(b)(6). 6 Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Reed International Books Australia Pty Ltd (2010) 189 FCR 109; 272 ALR 547; [2010] FCA 984 ; The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice ......
  • Is There Copyright In This Headline? Not According To The Federal Court
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 12 September 2010
    ...to create derivative services based on others' work (Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Reed International Books Australia Pty Ltd [2010] FCA 984). What does Reed do with stories from the Reed offers a service called ABIX. Subscribers receive abstracts of articles published in various new......
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3 books & journal articles
  • The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 36 No. 3, December 2012
    • 1 December 2012
    ...'work of joint authorship' in the Act. (148) See, eg, Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Reed International Books Australia Pty Ltd (2010) 189 FCR 109, 131 [85]-[89] (Bennett J); Milwell Pry Ltd v Olympic Amusements Pty Ltd (1999) 85 FCR 436, 446-7 [32]-[41] (Lee, von Doussa and Heerey JJ......
  • Curing the authorless void: protecting computer-generated works following IceTV and Phone Directories.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 37 No. 1, April - April 2013
    • 1 April 2013
    ...[2003] ECDR 6, 59 [46] (Judge Floyd). (139) See, eg, Fairfax Media Publications Pry Ltd v Reed International Books Australia Pty Ltd (2010) 189 FCR 109, 134 [101] (Bennett J), where a newspaper article and its headline were found not to be a work of joint authorship. Notwithstanding that, o......
  • Exclusive Rights in News and the Application of Fair Dealing
    • South Africa
    • South Africa Mercantile Law Journal No. , August 2019
    • 16 August 2019
    ...transform38These cases include The Associated Press v Meltwater US Holdings Inc 12 Civ 1087 (2013);Fairfax Media Publications v Reed [2010] FCA 984; Infopaq International A/S v DanskeDagblades Forening [2009] ECDR 16; Marks and Spencer supra note 25. This renders mootsome of the dicta of th......

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