Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd v Cooper

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation[2006] FCAFC 187,2006-1218 FCA F
Date2005
Year2005
CourtFull Federal Court (Australia)
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Tarantino, Gawker And The Hateful Eight – A Case Of Inglorious Infringement?
    • Canada
    • Mondaq Canada
    • 30 January 2014
    ...the Federal Court of Australia has deviated from the approach in North America in Cooper v. Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. [2006] FCAFC 187. There the court found the defendant guilty of "authorizing" copyright infringement by embedding hyperlinks on his website to remote 3rd party sit......
3 books & journal articles
  • REVISITING AUTHORISATION LIABILITY IN COPYRIGHT LAW
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2012, December 2012
    • 1 December 2012
    ...v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd[2012] EWHC 268 (Ch) at [29]. Cf further the US common law doctrine of vicarious copyright liability. 112 (2006) 237 ALR 714 at [48]. 113 The nature of any relationship – in Cooper v Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd(2006) 237 ALR 714, a commercial relationship......
  • The Reform of Copyright Protection in the Networked Environment: A Hong Kong Perspective
    • United States
    • The Journal of World Intellectual Property No. 11-5‐6, November 2008
    • 1 November 2008
    ...had no reason to believethat copyright subsisted in the work to which the action related.18 Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd v Cooper (2006) FCAFC 187 (Fed Ct (Aus) (Full Ct)).19 Sony Computer Entertainment Inc v Lik Sang International Limited (HCA 3583/2002).Paragraph 48 of the judgment:T......
  • Of copyright bureaucracies and incoherence: stepping back from Australia's recent copyright reforms.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 31 No. 3, December 2007
    • 1 December 2007
    ...of the assessment is demonstrated in the recent Full Court of the Federal Court decision in Cooper v Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd (2006) 156 FCR 380. CSPs may choose whether to rely on the law of authorisation, or the safe harbours in Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) pt V div (146) I acknowled......

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