The High Court has granted a company owned by the family of the late Jimi Hendrix an injunction to prevent further exploitation of old master tapes in breach of a 1973 consent order but declined to order damages. Jimi Hendrix signed an exclusive recording agreement with PPX in 1965. In 1967 PPX’s owner and president … Read more
The High Court decides that a session player is entitled to a share of the copyright in the song on which he played. This case shows yet again that the convention in the music industry and the law are not the same. Last week’s High Court judgment revisited the issue of the backing musician’s entitlement … Read more
The Court of Appeal sets out the principles on which a defendant will be held liable for the repetition of defamatory words by a third party. The owners of a shop selling memorabilia allege that in March last year Victoria Beckham protested to three of their customers in their shop that an autograph on a … Read more
Despite fierce lobbying from PACT and television producers, the prospect of keeping the sale and leaseback tax break available for television productions – even high end, big-budget drama – has now evaporated. However, limited transitional provisions have been introduced to save the tax break for certain television productions which were affected by the previous 17 … Read more
The tension between the right of the media freely to report matters of public interest and the need to protect other legitimate rights has given rise to another difficult balancing exercise for the House of Lords. Article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights creates a strong, but not absolute, obligation … Read more
