Original article by Christopher Knaus
The Guardian Australia – Page: Online : 8-Apr-26

Members of an activist group called the Farm Transparency Project recorded video footage of alleged animal cruelty when they broke into the Game Meats Company’s Victorian abattoir in 2023. The full bench of the Federal Court subsequently ruled that the Game Meats Company owns the copyright to the video footage, rather than the activists who recorded it. The High Court is currently hearing the Farm Transparency Project’s appeal against the ruling. Peter Greste, the executive director of the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom, says the case has significant implications for freedom of the press; he adds that the federal court’s ruling was unprecedented and is a troubling development in Australian law.

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THE GAME MEATS COMPANY OF AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, FARM TRANSPARENCY PROJECT, ALLIANCE FOR JOURNALISTS’ FREEDOM