Fairfax loses copyright court case over headlines: Legal analysis

By Kenneth Ti · 8 September 2010 · Legal

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Summary

The Federal Court has recently handed down a landmark decision and has decided that copyright does not exist in newspaper headlines. This decision affects news aggregators or services that summarise the work of others for distribution to their readers.

Tags: Australia, Fairfax, Federal Court, Lexisnexis, media, Newspapers