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This 16 page paper examines two fictitious cases supplied by the student and applied statue and common law to the cases to determine what actions may be possible. The first case deals with copyright potential infringement and failure to attribute an article to the author the second is a privacy issue and looks at actions that may be taken when a personal tape is stolen and shown on a porn site. The bibliography cites 9 sources.
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File: TS14_TEcopypriv.rtf
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attribution to another journalist this is a case that needs to be considered under copyright law. In Australia Copyright law is found principally under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth),
copyright law covers a range of intellectual products, including literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works. The works of journalists come under the category of literary works, and as such are
covered by this law. The default position under copyright law is that it is the creator that has the first ownership of the work. However, this is not always
the case, and with journalists this is not always the case, if a journalist is employed then the copyright may be classified as undertaken as part of the course of
their work, and as such the copyright will belong to the employer, there have been some amendments to the act since that date which gives journalists more rights over their
work, such as the right to republish in a book (Pearson, 2007). The case sees a journalist that is working as a freelance journalist, but this needs to be
considered first, in order to assess ownership of copyright. The journalist has been working as freelance for five years, where they have sold articles to different publication, they are not
under salary or retainer and they carry the risk and the cost of undertaking their article research and writing, as such the journalist are sufficiently independent to be seen freelance.
As the journalist can be sown to be freelance there is then no questions that under the act the journalist is the owner of the work that they have created.
It should also be noted that under the act copyright is automatically attributed to the creator there is no need for this
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