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1939-1968
This
page highlights key events in Australian and overseas
intellectual property law and practice from 1939 to 1968.
It covers -
It supplements the Intellectual Property guide page
regarding Australia and the separate profile
on Australian court and tribunal decisions regarding copyright.
Context is provided by the multi-page communications &
media timeline on this site.
1940
BMI formed in US
Lanham Act and Brussels Convention
1946 US Lanham Act passed - foundation of US cybersquatting
legislation
1948 Brussels Convention adds television to Berne
1949 UK Registered Designs Act
1951 Australian Dean Committee on industrial property
1952 Universal Copyright Convention (UCC)
1953 New Zealand Trademarks Act
1953 New Zealand Patents Act
1953 New Zealand Design Act
1956 UK Copyright Act
1956 Copyright Owners Reproduction Society Ltd (CORS)
formed in Australia
1958 Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations
of Origin and their International Registration and Regulation
Spicer and the Rome Convention
1959 Spicer Committee on copyright in Australia
1961 Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers,
Producers of Phonograms & Broadcasting Organizations
(Rome 2)
1961 International Convention for the Protection of New
Varieties of Plants
1962 Wihtol v Crow in US
1962 SESAC formed in US
1967 United Nations Convention Establishing the World
Intellectual Property Organization
1967 Stockholm Protocol for developing countries
Copyright Act 1968
1968 Copyright Act 1968
1968 Copyright Tribunal established
1968 Roland Barthes' The Death of the Author
next page (1969-1999)
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