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Matthew Rimmer

Selected Works

2001

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The Artist Is A Thief, Matthew Rimmer Nov 2001

The Artist Is A Thief, Matthew Rimmer

Matthew Rimmer

Stephen Gray is a writer and law lecturer who has been living in Darwin since 1989. He started out writing formal legal pieces about how copyright law had unsuccessfully sought to accommodate Aboriginal art. Such work led him to further investigate the philosophical questions underlying the legal issues affecting both traditional and urban Indigenous people. Gray has also explored matters of bioprospecting in relation to Indigenous biological resources. He has investigated the introduction of a label of authenticity into Australia. Gray has also published a number of articles about other legal issues affecting Indigenous people. He has explored such topics …

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Shine: Copyright Law And Film, Matthew Rimmer Jul 2001

Shine: Copyright Law And Film, Matthew Rimmer

Matthew Rimmer

This article looks at the various experiences of the film-makers involved in Shine in relation to copyright policy and litigation. Part 1 considers the involvement of Jan Sardi in the campaign to get screenwriters included in the moral rights regime in the film industry. Part 2 recounts the efforts of Scott Hicks to push for directors to acquire royalties under the retransmission scheme in the Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Act 2000 (Cth). Part 3 discusses the contractual dispute between independent producer Jane Scott and the distributor over the gross receipts to the film Shine. Part 4 explores the disputes over …

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The Pirate Bazaar: The Social Life Of Copyright Law, Matthew Rimmer Feb 2001

The Pirate Bazaar: The Social Life Of Copyright Law, Matthew Rimmer

Matthew Rimmer

This thesis provides a cultural history of Australian copyright law and related artistic controversies. It examines a number of disputes over authorship, collaboration, and appropriation across a variety of cultural fields. It considers legal controversies over the plagiarism of texts, the defacing of paintings, the sampling of musical works, the ownership of plays, the co-operation between film-makers, the sharing of MP3 files on the Internet, and the appropriation of Indigenous culture. Such narratives and stories relate to a broad range of works and subject matter that are protected by copyright law.This study offers an archive of oral histories and narratives …

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Napster: Infinite Digital Jukebox Or Pirate Bazaar?, Matthew Rimmer Jan 2001

Napster: Infinite Digital Jukebox Or Pirate Bazaar?, Matthew Rimmer

Matthew Rimmer

This paper considers the copyright litigation over the file-sharing program, Napster. The first section examines the culture of collecting at work in Napster. The next part examines the litigation by the major record companies and Metallica against Napster. The final section considers the future of file-sharing, looking at alternatives to Napster, such as Filetopia, Freenet, Gnutella, MP3board.com and streaming media.

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