Copyright in UK Law
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Hearst Holdings Inc. v AVELA Inc.
... ... The defendants deny this and contend the trade marks are invalid ... 6 2. The action as a whole also includes a claim for copyright infringement however that claim was separated from the trade mark and passing off claim in December 2013. This passing off and trade mark trial is ... ...
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Pearce v Ove Arup Partnership Ltd
... ... He claims, so far as is relevant to these proceedings, that he is the owner of United Kingdom and Dutch copyright in his Docklands plans ... 3 Between 1990 and 1993, the City of Rotterdam, the fourth defendants, had constructed in Rotterdam ... ...
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Ashdown v Telegraph Group Ltd
... ... important question of whether the Human Rights Act 1998 ("the Human Rights Act ") has impacted on the protection afforded to owners of copyright by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 ("the Copyright Act"). The appellants ("Telegraph Group") contend that it has. They contend that, when ... ...
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Newspaper Licensing Agency v Marks & Spencer Plc
... ... 536 ) and order of Lightman J. on 25 January 1999 in a copyright action. The Plaintiff, The Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd. ("the NLA"), brought proceedings against M&S, claiming that M&S, by copying articles, ... ...
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AEI Rediffusion Music Ltd v Phonographic Performance Ltd
... ... /3 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION) ON APPEAL FROM THE CHANCERY DIVISION (COPYRIGHT TRIBUNAL) Royal Courts of Justice Strand London WC2 (Transcript of the Handed Down Judgment of Smith Bernal Reporting ... ...
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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Others v David Harris and Others
... ... of or under common control with such members (together "the Group Companies") that are the owners, or exclusive licensees, of the copyright in films and television programmes) Claimants and (1) David Harris (2) Kthxbai Limited (3) The Nzb ... ...
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Ladbroke (Football) Ltd v William Hill (Football) Ltd
... ... The Respondents claim copyright in their coupons and allege infringement by the Appellants. The Appellants maintain that only certain parts of the Respondents' coupons are copyright ... ...
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Hyde Park Residence Ltd v Yelland
... ... upon a number of causes of action including breach of contract, inducement of breach of contract, breach of confidence and infringement of copyright. By summons dated 28th October 1998, Hyde Park sought summary judgment under O.14 and 14A RSC in respect of the allegations of breach of copyright ... ...
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Peer International Corpn v Termidor Music Publishers Ltd
... ... In these proceedings Peer sought declarations that they were the owners, alternatively exclusive licensees, of the United Kingdom copyright in respect of certain musical works composed by Cuban nationals. They allege that their rights stem from assignments in writing by the composers and ... ...
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Designer Guild Ltd v Russell Williams (Textiles) Ltd (trading as Washington DC)
... ... 2 The law of copyright rests on a very clear principle: that anyone who by his or her own skill and labour creates an original work of whatever character shall, for a ... ...
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