Report on Moral Rights

January 1988

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.

Report

• Report on Moral Rights – Table of Contents – PDF 26KB
• Report on Moral Rights – Part 1 – PDF 14KB
• Terms of Reference
• Recommendations
• Course of the Inquiry
• Nature of Moral Rights
• Report on Moral Rights – Part 2 – PDF 76KB
• 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
• Report on Moral Rights – Part 3 – PDF 243KB
• Introduction
• The minority's Recommendations and its Short Reasons Therefore
• The minority's General Consideration of the Reference
• Conclusions
• Report on Moral Rights – Endnotes and Appendices – PDF 53KB
• 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