AustraliaDe Garis v Neville Jeffress Pidler Pty Ltd
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Decided 6 July 1990 by the Federal Court of Australia.
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Justice Beaumont held that a press-clipping/media-monitoring service that reproduced newspaper articles for commercial clients could not rely on the s 42 fair-dealing exception for news reporting, because the relevant purpose is the defendant's own purpose rather than its customers'.
The decision establishes that news aggregators and redistributors must obtain licences; De Garis has not been overruled and remains the leading Australian authority on third-party limits to the news-reporting fair-dealing defence.
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https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/CommsLawB/1990/36.pdf
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