Intellectual property – Copyright – Subsistence and infringement of copyright – Computer software.
Subsistence of copyright – Computer languages – Words used as commands in one computer language used as commands with identical functions in another computer language – Whether copyright subsists in an individual command – Whether an individual command is itself a "computer program" within s 10(1) of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).
Infringement of copyright – Computer program – Application development system designed to enable computer programs to be written using certain commands – Whether a collocation of those commands constitutes a "substantial part" of the application development system – Test of substantiality as applied to computer programs.
Infringement of copyright – Computer program – Whether a macro in one computer program is an "adaptation" of a macro with the same functionality in another computer program – Meaning of "version" in s 10(1) of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).
Subsistence of copyright – Computer data table used for standard data compressions – Whether the data table is an "original literary work".
Infringement of copyright – Whether process devised to replicate a computer data table by examining its output constitutes a "reproduction" of the table.
Words and phrases – "adaptation" – "computer program" – "literary work" – "reproduction" – "set of instructions" –"substantial part" – "version".
Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), ss 10(1), 14(1)(b), 31(1)(a)(i), 36(1).