Phonographic Performance Company of Australia Limited v Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations

[1998] HCA 39
Judgment date
Case number
S95/1997
Before
Gaudron, McHugh, Gummow, Kirby, Hayne JJ
Catchwords

Copyright – Sound recording embodied in sound-track of cinematograph film – Whether broadcast of film constitutes broadcast of sound recording.

Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), ss 23(1), 85, 110(3), 113.

International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations (the Rome Convention).