Under s 37 of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) (‘the Copyright Act’) it is an offence to import into Australia copies of a book that has been legally produced for an overseas market in order to sell them. And s 38 of the Copyright Act makes it an offence to sell an imported copy of a book, if that copy was imported without the permission of the copyright owner.
2.
See Productivity Commission, ‘Restrictions on the Parallel Importation of Books’, Productivity Commission Discussion Draft (March 2009) 56.
3.
Copyright Act s 44A(3).
4.
Copyright Act s 44A(4).
5.
Productivity Commission, above n 2.
6.
Productivity Commission, above n 2, 7.7.
7.
For example, for an author of a literary work the duration of copyright in an original work is 70 years after the death of the author: Copyright Act s 33.
8.
See Productivity Commission, above n 2, 7.15–7.20.
9.
ThrosbyDavidHollisterVirginia (written on behalf of the Australia Council), Don't Give Up Your Day Job – An Economic Study of Professional Artists Working in Australia (2003).
