This article traces the application, operation and development of copyright law regarding literary works in colonial Australia. It examines the reception of the Literary Copyright Act 1842 (UK) and the Foreign Reprints Act 1847 (UK), exploring early (unsuccessful) attempts to liberalize the Australian book trade by allowing foreign imports of UK-copyright works. It also analyzes the development of colonial copyright legislation from the 1860s, using parliamentary debates and media commentary to explore contemporary attitudes to copyright policy. These inquiries reveal that the Australian colonies were unique throughout the empire in their insistence on toeing the imperial copyright line, in ways that were frequently contrary to the interests of colonial authors and readers.That the provisions of the various acts of the Imperial Parliament for securing to British authors and artists the copyright of their works should only be strictly enforced in these colonies is only consonant with justice and equity. In this, as in the ordinary business of our daily lives, honesty is the best policy. Our kindred in the United States have unwisely pursued an opposite course, and have paid the penalty accordingly … We are far from disparaging the literary genius of the American people … but the number is inconsiderable by comparison with the number of those who have acquired a distinguished reputation in the literary and scientific world of Great Britain. And one of the principle reasons for the discrepancy is the repressive and discouraging

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Trowler and Wareham stress the need for universities to identify university-wide and academic groupings, asking 'what are the predominant ideological orientations to research and to teaching and learning in this university context and how would they have to be changed in order to enhance the teaching-research nexus?'. 8 Ibid. Looking at the literature, they found institutional variation 'in delivering the nexus'. University teaching and research strategies need to articulate the link.

Australia introduced moral rights legislation in December 2000, giving effect to a doctrine that originated in civil law jurisdictions in the eighteenth century. The rights given effect to in Australia are the right of integrity, which allows the author to prevent derogatory treatment of their work, and the right of attribution, which mandates attribution of the author when the work is reproduced, published or otherwise communicated to the public. There is also the right to prevent false attribution of authorship. This article looks at the historical development of moral rights and examines why such an amendment to the law in Australia was necessary in a contemporary context. It discusses the implications of this amendment for the media and other industries.