| 词条 | Computer Edge v Apple |
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|court=High Court of Australia |date decided=6 May 1986 |full name= Computer Edge Pty Ltd v Apple Computer Inc |citations= [1986] HCA 19 |judges=Gibbs CJ, Mason, Wilson, Brennan, and Deane JJ }} Computer Edge v Apple was a decision handed down by the High Court of Australia on 6 May 1986, concerning copyright in computer software. The applicant was an importer of ‘Wombat’ personal computers compatible with the Apple operating system. The respondents had instituted proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia alleging that the applicants had infringed copyright in two computer programs related to the Apple system, namely the Autostart program and the Applesoft program. It was held at trial before Beaumont J that there was no breach of copyright, as neither source nor object code could be defined as literary works under the Copyright Act.[1] The verdict was appealed to the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia, where it was held unanimously that the two Apple programs were original literary works. The majority also held that the Apple read only memory (ROM) chips in the Wombat computer were sufficiently derived from these literary works to constitute an infringement of copyright. Special leave to appeal was granted, and in the High Court of Australia it was held that machine-readable works were not literary works under the 1968 Copyright Act. The 1983 trial decision had major ramifications for the relatively young field of software for personal computing. Soon after the decision was handed down, the Attorney-General Gareth Evans announced that legislation would be amended to ensure computer software was protected by the Copyright Act and this occurred via the Copyright Amendment Act 1984 No. 43 of 1984. References1. ^Apple Computer, Inc. v. Computer Edge Pty., Ltd. [1983] 50 Austl. L.R. 581 2 : Australian case law|Apple Inc. litigation |
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