Macmillan & Company Ltd v K. & J. Cooper

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1923
Date1923
Year1923
CourtPrivy Council
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  • Autocaps (Aust) Pty Ltd v Pro-Kit Pty Ltd
    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • Invalid date
  • Cable & Wireless Jamaica Ltd v Mossel (Jamaica) Ltd (T/A Digicel) and Oceanic Digital Jamaica Ltd
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 27 Septiembre 2011
    ...originate from the author.’ This dicta was approved and adopted by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the case of Macmillan and Co. Limited vs. Cooper (1923) 40 TLR 186 at 190. A work is therefore treated as original as long as it was not copied from another work, but originate......
  • CCH Canadian Ltd. et al. v. Law Society of Upper Canada, (2002) 289 N.R. 1 (FCA)
    • Canada
    • Canada (Federal) Federal Court of Appeal (Canada)
    • 14 Mayo 2002
    ...largely on the special facts of that case, and must in each case be very much a question of degree'; Macmillan and Co. Ltd. v. Cooper (1923), 40 T.L.R. 186, at 190. What is not clear is whether the intellectual effort, labour, etc., must be more than negligible or whether it must be substan......
  • Electricity Supply Board v Commissioner of Environmental Information
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 17 Enero 2024
    ...v Lane [1900] AC 539 with approval. It further approved of the following passage from Lord Aitkin in MacMillan and Co. Limited v Cooper [1923] 40 TLR 186: ‘To secure copyright for this product it is necessary that labour, skill and capital should be expended sufficiently to impart to the pr......
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5 books & journal articles
  • THE BASIS FOR ORIGINALITY IN PHOTOGRAPHS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2020, December 2020
    • 1 Diciembre 2020
    ...v Harry Lewis [1976] RPC 169 at 174–175 that in view of the amendment to the statute, Walter v Lane may no longer be good law. 213 (1924) 40 TLR 186; (1923) 93 LJPC 113. 214 Interlego AG v Tyco Industries Inc [1989] AC 217 at 260. 215 Interlego AG v Tyco Industries Inc [1989] AC 217 at 262–......
  • Table of cases
    • United States
    • ABA Antitrust Library Antitrust Issues in International Intellectual Property Licensing Transactions
    • 1 Enero 2012
    ...387 M.S.O. Supercanal, CNCom, [2003-III] J.A. 502. (2002) ............................................... XXX MacMillan & Co. v. Cooper, 40 T.L.R. 186 (1923) .......................................................................... 624 Magal Sec. Sys. v. Antitrust Gen. Dir., [2001] Takdin-......
  • Scanning Cultural Heritage: The Implications for Intellectual Property and Cultural Institutions.
    • United Kingdom
    • Art Antiquity & Law Vol. 25 No. 1, April 2020
    • 1 Abril 2020
    ...285-287. (125) Interlego AG v. Tyco Industries Inc [1989] AC 217 (PC). (126) Walter v. Lane, above, note 123. (127) Macmillan v. Cooper (1924) 40 TLR 186 (PC) 188; Garnett, above, note 3, (128) Sawkins, above, note 121, [83]. (129) Infopaq, above, note 108, paras 33-37. (130) Directive 96/9......
  • The relationship between incentives, innovation and market behaviour within the context of the intellectual property system in Nigeria
    • South Africa
    • Juta South African Intellectual Property Law Journal No. , May 2019
    • 24 Mayo 2019
    ...Row v Natio n Enterprises 471 US 539, 563 (1985).23 Act for the En couragement of Literat ure and Genius 1783.24 In Macmillan v Coop er (1923) 40 TLR 186, the Privy Council held t hat ‘…it is the product of the labour, skill a nd capital of one man which mus t not be appropriated by a nothe......
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