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

• 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)

RELATED CASES

• Ladbroke v William Hill