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THE TRUE HISTORY OF COPYRIGHT - The Australian Experience 1905–2005

Benedict Atkinson

BA (Hons) LLM (Hons I)
University of Sydney

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

• Aim
• Method
• The thesis
• Narrative and counter-narrative
• Public choice theory
• Some theoretical considerations

Chapter 1 - Australia's First Act

• The beginning
• Before Federation
• Origins of the Copyright Act 1905
• Imperial considerations
• The purpose of the legislation
• Structure and Content of the Copyright Act 1905
• Modern conceptions shunned
• Macaulay and the copyright term
• The debate over the 1905 Copyright Act
• A bridge to the modern

Chapter 2 - International Developments

• Transition to the modern era
• Copyright modernism
• The Berlin Conference of 1908
• The Gorrell Committee
• The Imperial Copyright Conference
• Resolutions and conclusion

Chapter 3 - A New Era and New Legislation

• The Copyright Debate in Britain, 1911–12
• Fair dealing
• 1912 Parliamentary debate in Australia
• The Copyright Act 1912

Chapter 4 - The Broadcasting Revolution and Performing Rights

• Revenue collection
• The public performance right
• The history of radio broadcasting in Australia to the 1930s
• APRA and the war over the performing right

Chapter 5 - The APRA Ware and the Rome Conference

• The beginning of the APRA wars
• The Rome Conference 1928

Chapter 6 - The Radio War and a New Performing Right

• Two performing rights
• International developments – Britain and Canada
• Record Manufacturers and the mechanical performing right
• APRA’s offer to the ABC
• APRA and the commercial broadcasters
• Cinema exhibitors and municipal associations
• Decision to hold Royal Commission

Chapter 7 - Public Inquiry and Arguments Over Performing Rights

• The Royal Commission on Performing Rights

Chapter 8 - Beyond Authors' Rights

• The Royal Commission Report
• The Government’s response
• Latham’s legacy
• Recognition of the mechanical performing right
• After Latham
• The Menzies years
• The end of an era – the debate over APRA
• Reasons for Government inaction

Chapter 9 - Reform

• The 1950s: the drive for reform
• The Government stirs
• The performing right and sport
• The Gregory Committee

Chapter 10 - A New British Act and the Spicer Committee

• After the Gregory Report
• The Spicer Committee
• Differences in approach between the Spicer and Gregory Committees

Chapter 11 - The Road to the New Australian Copyright Act

• The 1960s
• The 1967 Copyright Bill
• The debates of 1968
• Summary of the 1968 Act

Chapter 12 - Developments in Australia After 1968

• A new supremacy
• The problem of photocopying
• The Third World and copyright access
• Common law developments
• The Franki Committee

Chapter 13 - After 1980: Collecting Societies and Software Copyright

• After the Franki Report – the 1980 amendments
• The rise of CAL
• The copyright collecting societies
• Copyright in software

Chapter 14 - The Age of America

• Administration and policy
• The digital agenda reforms and the aftermath
• A pirate nation and the Australian response
• Conclusion

Chapter 15 - Policy Observations

Bibliography

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

Appendix 4

Index