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Authorship and fixation in copyright law : a comparative comment

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posted on 2012-01-01, 00:00 authored by Elizabeth AdeneyElizabeth Adeney
[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.]

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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

Copyright notice

2011, Melbourne University Law Review Association

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