Report on Moral Rights

The Committee has been asked to consider six references and has now completed and forwarded to the Attorney-General its report on four of these.

January 1988

Table of Contents

Part 1

• Terms of Reference
• Recommendations
• Course of the Inquiry
• Nature of Moral Rights

Part 2

• The Present Australian Legal Position
• Summary of Reasons for Recommendations
• Practical Considerations
• Theoretical Basis for Moral Rights
• Support for Introduction of Moral Rights
• Infractions of Moral Rights
• Australian Community's Perception of Moral Rights
• Actions by Authors

Part 3

• Introduction
• The minority's Recommendations and its Short Reasons Therefor
• The minority's General Consideration of the Reference
• Conclusions

Endnotes and Appedices

• Endnotes Majority Views
• Endnotes Minority Views
• Appendix 1 - List of submittors responding to Committee's discussion paper
• Appendix 2 - List of submittors responding to Committee's request for comments from government authorities, publishers and postcard manufacturers
• Appendix 3 - Part IX of the Copyright Act 1968