In Australia, an ISP prevails in long-running copyright dispute

20.04.2012

One of the precedents cited by the entertainment industry was a 1975 High Court decision involving the University of New South Wales' library, whose photocopier was used to copy "The Americans, Baby," a book by the author Frank Moorehouse.

Moorehouse joined a suit filed by the Australian Copyright Council. A court found that the university had authorized the copyright infringement by failing to stop people using a photocopier in its library to infringe.