xxiv, 355 p. ; 25 cm.

The committee's draft report and relevant international developments: Prices Surveillance Authority (PSA) report on prices of computer software; High Court decision in Autodesk v Dyason; Copyright Convergence Group report: Highways to change; European Union; Uruguay Round of GATT; WIPO [World Intell...

The position since the 1984 amendments: the Autodesk case (the scope of protection of computer programs; the definition of 'computer program'; the meaning of 'reproduction'; the meaning of 'adaption' - The 1984 amendments: definition of 'literary work'; protection of object code; types of computer p...

employees of newspapers, magazines and similar periodicals; computer programs produced in educational institutions; computer programs produced by or for governments - Duration of protection of computer programs: term of protection; published and unpublished works; United States term of protection of...

(European Union; possible protocol to the Berne Convention); moral rights - Exceptions to exclusive rights: copying for normal use; back-up copying; ephemeral back-up copying by businesses; third party maintainers; reverse engineering and decompilation; fair dealing; Crown use of computer programs;...

display right; publication right; rental right; compilations; European Union amended directive on databases; hypertext; multimedia - Published edition copyright (publishers' copyright) - Delivery of material to the National Library of Australia - Archival copying of materials into machine readable f...