"There is a tension in policy between the monopoly rights which are conferred upon the owner of copyright in a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work on the one hand, and the freedom to express ideas or discuss facts on the other. While there will be an infringement of the copyright of an owner in a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work where there is a reproduction of that work or a substantial part of it, the fact that another work deals with the same ideas or discusses matters of fact also raised in the work in respect of which copyright is said to subsist will not, of itself, constitute an infringement. Were it otherwise the copyright laws would be an impediment to free speech, rather than an encouragement of original expression."

2. Condition 2: Literary, Dramatic, Musical, or Artistic Work

Video overview by Kylie Pappalardo on Part III works.
To fall within Part III of the Copyright Act, the expression must be a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work.

2.1 Literary Work

A literary work includes (s 10):