279:(1900) as "the high point of the line of authority supportive of the proposition that one can be the 'author' of a work without scope for variance in expression" (ie. creativity). His Honour held that "decisively for the present case, there is no principle that the labour and expense of collecting, verifying, recording and assembling (albeit routinely) data to be compiled are irrelevant to, or are incapable of themselves establishing, origination, and therefore originality." Any departure from the long course of Anglo-Australian authority would have to be done by the High Court.
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Finkelstein J too had questioned the parties' underlying assumptions about authorship. Gordon J found that Telstra had "manifestly" failed to identify the joint authors of the White and Yellow Pages, and "none of the people said to
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noted that the trial and the appeal were conducted on the basis that it was unnecessary for
Telstra to establish that the directories or headings books had a particular or joint authors. Synthesising the historical cases, he concluded that "a compilation of factual information will ordinarily be an
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Therefore, copyright subsisted in both the telephone directories and the headings books. Although the information had been reproduced in a different visual format, the differences were not "material" and the substance of the information taken from
Telstra's works had been reproduced.
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original literary work for copyright purposes if the compiler has undertaken substantial labour or incurred substantial expense in collecting the information." The decision in
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