C.B.S. Inc. v Ames Records & Tapes Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1981
Year1981
CourtChancery Division

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  • Lotus Development Corporation and Another v Ong Seow Pheng and Others
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 24 July 1996
    ... ... learned judge, whose decision is reported as Novell Inc v Ong ... Seow Pheng & Ors and other actions < 1993 > 3 SLR ... On the basis of the House of ... Lord's decision in CBS Songs Ltd & ors v Amstrad Consumer ... Electronics Plc & ... recorded cassettes onto blank tapes. The system enabled the ... purchaser to receive broadcast transmissions, to play disc ... records, to play taped records and, on blank tape, to record ... In C.B.S. Inc., v Ames Records & Tapes Ltd. < 1982 > ... Ch. 91, Whitford J. held ... ...
  • RecordTV Pte Ltd v MediaCorp TV Singapore Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 1 December 2010
    ...(No 3) [2010] FCA 24 (“iiNet”). Turning to English law, the English cases of, inter alia, CBS Inc and Another v Ames Records & Tapes Ltd [1982] Ch 91, CBS Songs Ltd and Others v Amstrad Consumer Electronics Plc and Another [1988] AC 1013 (“Amstrad”) and, more recently, Twentieth Century Fox......
  • Ong Seow Pheng and Others v Lotus Development Corp and Another
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 29 May 1997
    ...the grantee shall do the act on his own account, or only on account of the grantor; ... In CBS Inc & Anor v Ames Records and Tapes Ltd [1982] Ch 91 , the plaintiffs were manufacturers of sound recordings in the form of disc and tapes and owned the copyright in a large number of recordings. ......
  • CCH Canadian Ltd. et al. v. Law Society of Upper Canada, (2002) 289 N.R. 1 (FCA)
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Canada)
    • 14 May 2002
    ...v. Fairfax (John) &amp; Sons Ltd., [1982] R.P.C. 91 (Aust. H.C.), refd to. [para. 258]. C.B.S. Inc. v. Ames Records &amp; Tapes Ltd., [1981] 2 W.L.R. 973 (Ch. D.), refd to. [para. de Montigny v. Cousineau, [1950] S.C.R. 297, refd to. [para. 276]. Clark, Irwin &amp; Co. v. C. Cole &amp; Co. ......
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4 books & journal articles
  • REVISITING AUTHORISATION LIABILITY IN COPYRIGHT LAW
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2012, December - January 2012
    • 1 December 2012
    ...given the same meaning as that used in the Moorhouse case. [emphasis added]” 30 Falcon v Famous Players Film Co [1926] 2 KB 474 at 499. 31 [1982] Ch 91 at 106. 32 [1986] FSR 159 at 207. 33 [1988] AC 1013 at 1054. 34 CBS Songs Ltd v Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc [1988] AC 1013 at 1053. 35......
  • Table of cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Canadian Telecommunications Law
    • 6 September 2011
    .......................................................................................... 308 CBS Inc. v. Ames Records & Tapes Ltd., [1981] 2 W.L.R. 973 , [1981] 2 All E.R. 812, [1981] R.P.C. 407 (Ch.) ....................................... 250 CCH Canadian Ltd. v. Law Society of Upper Canad......
  • International Issues in Secondary Liability for Intellectual Property Rights Infringement
    • United States
    • Wiley American Business Law Journal No. 45-2, June 2008
    • 1 June 2008
    ...Brief, supra note 81, at 16–17 (discussing au-thorization under U.K. law).99Per Whitford J. in CBS Inc. v. Ames Records & Tapes Ltd., [1982] Ch. 91, at 106, approved inAmstrad Consumer Electronics plc v. British Phonographic Ind., Inc., [1986] F.S.R. 159 at 211, CAand in CBS Songs Ltd. v. A......
  • NET EFFECT COPYRIGHT CONUNDRUM IN CYBERSPACE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1997, December 1997
    • 1 December 1997
    ...CBS Songs Ltd v Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc. [1988] A.C. 1013 (H.L.) 52 Per Whitford J. in C.B.S. Inc. v Ames Records & Tapes Ltd. [1982] Ch. 91 at p. 106, approved in C.B.S. Songs Ltd. v Amstrad plc., supra, n. 51. 53 Supra, n. 51. 54 Moorhouse and Angus and Robertson (Publishers) Pty......