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IceTV Pty Ltd v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd [2009] HCA 14

By Oxbridge Law TeamUpdated 04/01/2024 07:13

Judgement for the case IceTV Pty Ltd v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd

Table Of Contents

  • Defendant, ICE TV, created a electronic schedule of programmes to be broadcast on Australian TV each week.

  • Claimant alleged that this was an infringement of the copyright subsisting in its weekly TV guide.

Held

  • Ladbroke v William Hill referred to unfavourably.

  • Purely informative material reproduced by D is not sufficiently original to have copyright.

  • Court distinguished between:

    1. Provision of names and title information (which is unoriginal)

    2. Selection of what programmes to put on when, and manner of presentation of that information (which is original)

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