The fallout from this case affects US pilots too. (Score 2, Informative)

The Australian government's assertion that the list of airports, runways and tower frequencies was subject to international copyright was used as a flimsy excuse for the US NGA to block all public access to the DAFIF, a database of information about airports worldwide that had been publicly available since the mid 1970s.

Wanna bet that even if the Aussie high court rules reasonably the NGA will still try to keep everything secret?

The NGA is the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency - used to be the Defense Mapping Agency before 911 made having "Intelligence" in agency names made it easier to get funding from Congress.