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...

For real or chattel property that possession is at the root of title is clear as a matter of legal history. For copyright in works, the answer in legal history to the question of what is at the root of title is not so clear and that lack of clarity has rendered basic aspects of modern law...