Copyright Law 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 and labour creates an original work of whatever character shall, for a ... ...
  • C.B.S. Songs Ltd v Amstrad Consumer Electronics Plc
    • House of Lords
    • 12 May 1988
    ... ... argue that it is unlawful for Amstrad to make recording equipment which 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 their equipment in such a way as to encourage copying. Amstrad and Dixons ... ...
  • 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 maintain that only certain parts of the Respondents' coupons are copyright ... ...
  • OBG Ltd and another v Allan and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 02 May 2007
    ... ... In the case of the 1988 Act it expressly re-conferred the right on a copyright exclusive licensee, conferred the right on an exclusive licensee under the new form of property called an unregistered design right (see section 234) ... ...
  • Fisher v Brooker
    • House of Lords
    • 30 July 2009
    ... ... One of its most striking features is Matthew Fisher's extraordinary 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 had waited for 38 years, with knowledge and without reasonable excuse, as ... ...
  • Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd and Others (No. 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 13 October 1988
    ... ... Restraint of publication was claimed on the ground of breach of confidence and also on that of infringement of copyright. Mason J. granted an injunction on the latter ground but not on the former. Having mentioned at p. 51 an argument for the Commonwealth that the ... ...
  • Francis Day & Hunter Ltd v Bron
    • Court of Appeal
    • 25 February 1963
    ... ... of Mr Justice Wilberforce, given on the 27th July 1968, 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 will refer hereafter as "Spanish Town"). This was composed In 1926, and (as has been admitted ... ...
  • Hubbard v Vosper
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 November 1971
    ... ... It is this book of which the plaintiffs now seek to prevent publication. They do it on two grounds: first, infringement of copyright: secondly, breach of confidence. I. INFRINGEMENT of COPYRIGHT ... 9 Whatever one may think of Mr. Hubbard's books, letters and bulletins, they ... ...
  • AEI Rediffusion Music Ltd v Phonographic Performance Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 February 1999
    ... ... /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 ... ...
  • Rank Film Distributors Ltd v Video Information Centre
    • House of Lords
    • 08 April 1981
    ... ... They are of a type which have come to be known as " Anton Piller orders" so called after a tortious infringer of copyright whose case reached the Court of Appeal in 1976 ( [1976] Ch. 55 ) ... 2 They are designed to deal with situations created by infringements of ... ...
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