JSB171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Warner Music Group, Patent Attorney, Media Monitoring Service
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Copyright law aims to encourage creativity by providing an appropriate reward for creators without unreasonably limiting the public"s access to information. Copyright law is not designed to monopolise everyday activity (i. e. independent thought is not stopped) Art 9(2) trips: copyright protection shall extend to expressions and not to ideas, procedures, methods of operation or mathematical concepts. Held: universal had copyright over the jaws but not the idea about man eating sharks. Baigent & anor v the random house group limited (the da vinci code) Facts: dan brown was sued by 2 authors for infringement of copyright regarding ideas in their books. Held: no infringement because the authors did not have copyright over the ideas they merely had copyright over the expression of the ideas; there was not enough expression to constitute infringement. However: this decision was upheld on appeal (ewca civ 247) Journalist owns the in the words of a speech taken down verbatim.
