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List of copyright case law

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The following is a list of cases that deal with issues of concern to copyright in various jurisdictions. Some of these cases are leading English cases as the law of copyright in various Commonwealth jurisdictions developed out of English law while these countries were colonies of the British Empire. Other cases provide background in areas of copyright law that may be of interest for the legal reasoning or the conclusions they reach.


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  • Yumbulul v Reserve Bank of Australia (1991) 21 IPR 481 ("copyright law does not provide adequate protection of Aboriginal community claims to regulate the reporoduction and use of works which are essentially communal in origin" (Aus.))

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  • Zeccola v. Universal City Studios Inc. (1982) 46 ALR 189 (there is no copyright the idea of a theme or a story, but there may be a time where a combination of events and characters reaches sufficient complexity as to give rise to dramatic work copyright (Aus.))

Note: As this is a list of leading legal cases, improving it means that you should add other leading legal cases in the copyright area if you cannot do a case summary. Only add a case name if you have a valid citation to that case (so someone else can read the case if they are not familar with it).