FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIAOral Agreement • December 28th, 2022
Contract Type FiledDecember 28th, 2022COPYRIGHT – cinematograph film – oral agreement between organiser of charitable undertaking and television station under which television station’s camera operator and sound recordist accompanied organiser and troubled youths on trek along Kokoda Track – under agreement, television station to televise short film of trek, on station’s news and current affairs program, and organiser to have raw foota ge subsequently for use to promote the charity – after program went to air, organiser handed tapes of raw footage as arranged – organiser taking tapes to film producer who makes a one- hour documentary, which is proposed to be televised by competitor television station – original television station seeks injunction on basis of threatened infringement of copyright – whether copyright in original raw footage co-owned by organiser and original television station – whether original television station had contracted to assign to organiser its interest in copyright or to grant him a licence – whet