Copyright Infringement in UK Law

  • Designer Guild Ltd v Russell Williams (Textiles) Ltd (trading as Washington DC)
    • House of Lords
    • 23 November 2000
    ... ... 2 The law of copyright rests on a very clear principle: that anyone who by his or her own skill ... The infringement of which the plaintiff complained was that for the purpose of creating its ... ...
  • C.B.S. Songs Ltd v Amstrad Consumer Electronics Plc
    • House of Lords
    • 12 May 1988
    ... ... will be used by members of the public to copy records in which copyright subsists. In the alternative, B.P.I. argue that Amstrad must not advertise ... are almost impossible to detect and a successful action for infringement against one copier would have little deterrent effect. The sales of sound ... ...
  • Ladbroke (Football) Ltd v William Hill (Football) Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 21 January 1964
    ... ... The Respondents claim copyright in their coupons and allege infringement by the Appellants. The Appellants ... ...
  • Hubbard v Vosper
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 November 1971
    ... ... They do it on two grounds: first, infringement of copyright: secondly, breach of confidence. I. INFRINGEMENT of ... ...
  • Francis Day & Hunter Ltd v Bron
    • Court of Appeal
    • 25 February 1963
    ... ... , whereby he dismissed an action brought by the plaintiffs for infringement of their copyright in a song called "In a Little Spanish Town" (to which I ... ...
  • Fisher v Brooker
    • House of Lords
    • 30 July 2009
    ... ... delay in making his claim for a share of the musical copyright. In para 82 of his judgment Mummery LJ described the fact that Mr Fisher ... and also an injunction in general terms restraining copyright infringement. He failed to obtain either of these heads of relief. The judge declined ... ...
  • Rank Film Distributors Ltd v Video Information Centre
    • House of Lords
    • 08 April 1981
    ... ... " Anton Piller orders" so called after a tortious infringer of copyright whose case reached the Court of Appeal in 1976 ( [1976] Ch. 55 ) ... 2 ... I would be reluctant to hold that in civil proceedings for infringement based on specified acts the defendants could claim privilege against ... ...
  • Anton Piller KG v Manufacturing Processes Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 08 December 1975
    ... ... showing how they work, and drawings which are the subject of copyright ... 6Very recently Pillers have found out - so they say - that these ... and asked, first, for an interim injunction to restrain infringement, etc., and, secondly, for an Order that they might be permitted to enter ... ...
  • Sea Shepherd UK v Fish & Fish Ltd
    • Supreme Court
    • 04 March 2015
    ... ... ) ); or by using the prospect of unlawfully downloading streamed copyright material to attract users to the defendant's website ( Dramatico ... of allegations of accessory liability for the tortious infringement of intellectual property rights. There is, however, nothing in these ... ...
  • Mood Music Publishing Company Ltd v De Wolfe Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 October 1975
    ... ... They own the copyright in the works and supply them to television producers - who use them for ... the defendant, co-plaining that the "Girl in the Dark" was an infringement of Sogno Nostalgico ... 3 On 24th March 1967 the ... ...
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