This article examines the interplay between the moral rights provisions, introduced into Australian copyright law in 2000, and the more recently introduced defence of fair dealing for the purposes of parody or satire. The legislation gives effect to a theoretical and legislative dichotomy...

This article concerns the interpretation of the defence of fair dealing ‘for the purpose of parody or satire', a defence that was added to the Australian Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) in 2006. The Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) provides no definition of ‘parody or satire'; no cases have considered the...