108. Provisions relating to cinematograph films
Feedback & supportWhere the visual images forming part of a cinematograph film consist wholly or principally of images that, at the time when they were first embodied in an article or thing, were means of communicating news, the copyright in the film is not infringed by the causing of the film to be seen or heard, or to be both seen and heard, in public after the expiration of 50 years after the expiration of the calendar year in which the principal events depicted in the film occurred.
cinematograph film
“cinematograph film” means the aggregate of visual images embodied in an article or thing so as to be capable by the use of that article or thing —(a)of being shown as a moving picture; or(b)of being embodied in another article or thing by the use of which it can be so shown,and includes the aggregate of the sounds embodied in a sound-track associated with such visual images;
Where the sounds that are embodied in a sound-track associated with the visual images forming part of a cinematograph film are also embodied in a record, other than such a sound-track or a record derived directly or indirectly from such a sound-track, the copyright in the cinematograph film is not infringed by any use made of that record.[Aust. 1968, s. 110]
sound-track
“sound-track”, in relation to visual images forming part of a cinematograph film, means —(a)the part of any article or thing (being an article or thing in which those visual images are embodied) in which sounds are embodied; or(b)a disc, tape or other device in which sounds are embodied and which is made available by the maker of the film for use in conjunction with the article or thing in which those visual images are embodied;