<div class="gmail_quote">On 8 September 2010 13:58, John Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com" target="_blank">deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">



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Also I was told by a lawyer locally that the phone book case is still<br>
going through the appeal process.<br>
<div><div></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>It is, although only to a full-bench of the federal court.  The recent IceTV vs Channel 9 case at the High Court is instructive here (read the case at <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/2009/14.html" target="_blank">http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/2009/14.html</a> or for a sumamry see  <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lawreport/stories/2009/2560086.htm" target="_blank">http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lawreport/stories/2009/2560086.htm</a> ).  The judges found that there must be:<br>

<br><blockquote>some "creative
spark"<span class="sup"><b><a name="fnB197" href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/2009/14.html#fn197">[197]</a></b></span>
or exercise of "skill and
judgment"<span class="sup"><b><a name="fnB198" href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/2009/14.html#fn198">[198]</a></b></span>
before a work is sufficiently "original" for the subsistence of 
copyright.  <br></blockquote>
<br>The Yellow/White Pages case (currently being appealed) was concluded on the basis that similarly, no such creative spark existed.  We'll have to wait and see what happens in the appeal, however.<br><br>-Francis Markham<br>

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