[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.]
History
Journal
Melbourne university law review
Volume
53
Issue
2
Pagination
677 - 696
Publisher
Melbourne University Law Review Association
Location
Melbourne, Vic.
ISSN
0025-8938
eISSN
1839-3810
Language
eng
Publication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal article