One of the precedents cited by the entertainment industry was a 1975 High Court decision involving the University of New South Wales' library, whose photocopier was used to copy "The Americans, Baby," a book by the author Frank Moorehouse.
Moorehouse joined a suit filed by the Australian Copyright Council. A court found that the university had authorized the copyright infringement by failing to stop people using a photocopier in its library to infringe. Universities now have signs by photocopiers warning that people should not reproduce more than 10 percent of a works' content.