In Pacific Film Laboratories v. Commissioner of Tax (1970) 121 CLR 154, (Australia) Windeyer J defined copyright: "It is not a right in an existing thing. It is a negative right[?], as it has been called, a power to prevent the making of a physical thing by copying."
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