A Full Court of the Federal Court has rejected the appeal of all but one of the appellants in their appeal against a decision of Tamberlin J.

The case concerns a website contained which hyperlinks to infringing MP3 files on other websites. The hyperlinks were uploaded by visitors to the site.

At first instance, the proprietor of the website (Cooper) was held liable for authorising infringement. Also found liable were the ISP that hosted the site, its director, and an employee. The appeal by the proprietor of the site, the ISP and the director failed. The appeal by the employee was successful.

Cooper v Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd [2006] FCAFC 187 (18 December 2006)