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Authorship and fixation in copyright law : a comparative comment

Adeney, Elizabeth 2012, Authorship and fixation in copyright law : a comparative comment, Melbourne university law review, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 677-696.

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Title Authorship and fixation in copyright law : a comparative comment
Author(s) Adeney, Elizabeth
Journal name Melbourne university law review
Volume number 53
Issue number 2
Start page 677
End page 696
Total pages 20
Publisher Melbourne University Law Review Association
Place of publication Melbourne, Vic.
Publication date 2012
ISSN 1839-3810
Keyword(s) copyright
authorship
Summary [The present comment considers an issue that has received little discussion in the common law world: namely whether fixation and authorship are parts of the same creative act in relation to literary, dramatic and musical works. The importance of the question is that, if authorship does not entail fixation, it should logically be possible for a person independent of the author to reduce the work to material form for copyright purposes. This would significantly expand the range of works protected by copyright and would extend protection to those works which have never been fixed by their authors. The focus of the comment is Australian law, but its discussion is comparative, with particular attention given to UK law.]
Language eng
Field of Research 180115 Intellectual Property Law
Socio Economic Objective 940401 Civil Justice
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2012, Melbourne University Law Review Association
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30045570

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