This paper questions the common legal assumption that Internet protocol television (IPTV) in its typical form is necessarily a service delivered using or over the Internet. It uses two aspects of Australian law – one in broadcasting and the other in copyright – to examine whether the...

This article compares official regulation of printing in England from 1484 to 1695, with the regulation of broadcasting in Australia from 1905 to 2000. This comparison reveals a consistent government impulse to regulate new means of communication, until the time that new means becomes...