Protection is afforded only to the form in which something is expressed. The is no copyright in ideas, opinions, information or facts. In a 1960 case, John Fair- v & Sons Ltd v Consolidated Press Ltd [1960) SR (NSW) 413, the court ruled that the Daily Telegraph could not reproduce the style and sequence of birth and death notices in The Sydney Morning Herald, but could publish the same infor mation in an altered form. The facts of birth and death were not copyright, but the form in which The Sydney Morning Herald presented those facts was. The idea that is the basis of a program is similarly not subject to copyright law. In the landmark Privy Council case, Green v Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand (1988) 2 NZLR 490 (the Green Case), the Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand had broadcast a show that was similar to the UK talent quest, Opportunity Knocks, of which Hughie Green was compere. The New Zealand called Opportunity Knocks and had catchphrases version of the show was also and a "clapometer that had featured in the original. Green's lawyers claimed that the scripts and dramatic format of the NZ show infringed his copyright, but no scripts were produced as evidence, and the court found that nothing was shown in which copyright could subsist. Scripts, as inferred from the evidence, only expressed a general idea or concept for a talent quest, and were not subject to copyright. Although there were features common to the two shows, the court had difficulty isolating them from the rest of a changing show, and still calling t an "original dramatic work'. A dramatic work, the court said, must have unity to be capable of performance, but features of a format' are only accessories to a show,