Assignment on Intellectual Property Law

Running head: INTELLECTUAL ROPERTY LAW
Intellectual Property Law
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Authors note

INTELLECTUAL ROPERTY LAW1
Issue
In this paper, the issue to be discussed is whether, any Copyright are violated by Prenilla.
Rule
The present tissue must be discussed in the light of the Copyright Act, 1968 (Cth). It
cannot be ignored that in the present day, where technology is developing day by day, this
Copyright law has a great importance to protect the artistic, musical, literary and dramatic work.
In regard to the protection of various artistic works, the Copyright Act, 1968 (Cth) can be
divided into two categories. Part III of the above-mentioned Act1 protect the material works
which include original music, literary, dramatic or artistic work. Part IV of the said Act2 protects
the subject matters of the work and not the material works. Here the term subject matters of the
work include film, cinematography, sound recording, broadcasting through television and sound
and published editions of works3. Whenever a work is created by any person, the question of
copyright arises mechanically. The Act elaborated that the copyright law has been violated only
when someone copied the words.
This Act4 also elaborates that it is not possible for the holder of a copyright to bring legal
actions for the purpose of developing a creation which was done independently and without
referring the work of the owner.
This law also states that there is no official process available to obtain a copyright. To
qualify for obtaining a copyright, the creative work done by any person must fall within any of
1 Copyright Act, 1968 (Cth)
2 Copyright Act, 1968 (Cth)
3 Stewart, Andrew (Andrew John), 1959-, author.; Caenegem, William van, author.; Bannister, Judith,
author.; Liberman, Adam, author.; Lawson, Charles, author.; (LexisNexis Butterworths publisher, 2017). CCH
Australia Limited distributor
4 Copyright Act, 1968 (Cth)