<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I'm wondering if someone could give me a sense of the pre-history of the 1911 copyright law in Australia. Was there anything that pre-dates this? References appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Geoff<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Geoff Stahl<br>Lecturer, Media Studies<br>42-44 Kelburn Parade<br>Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600<br>Wellington, Aotearoa-New Zealand<br>Phone: +64 4 463 5233 (ext. 7472)<br><br></div><div>Chair, International Association for the Study of Popular Music </div><div>(IASPM)</div><div><a href="http://www.iaspm.net">http://www.iaspm.net</a><br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="650" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><col width="610"><col width="40"><tbody><tr height="12"><td height="12" class="xl25" width="610"><br></td><td class="xl24" width="40" x:num="282.0"><br></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>