The hysterical reaction to Sky’s capture of the exclusive live rights to home Test match cricket (which saw some press commentators holding Rupert Murdoch’s organisation responsible for the growing obesity of British youth) has now reached the final stage with the announcement of Ofcom’s intention to approve Channel 5’s award of a highlight package (a … Read more
One of the UK’s leading intellectual property judges (Mr Justice Laddie) has restated the key principles in the UK law of copyright on which format rights cases will be judged in the case brought by the publishers of Ideal Home (IPC Media) against the publishers of Capital Homes magazine (Highbury-SPL Publishing). The judge found that no copying had taken … Read more
The actor and singer Jimmy Nail has lost his appeal against the decision of Mr Justice Eady to reduce his damages award by 50% because of the use by the defendants of the Offer of Amends regime. Jimmy Nail had issued proceedings over an article published in the News of the Worldcontaining defamatory allegations concerning his … Read more
The publishers of IDEAL HOME magazine have lost their claim of copyright infringement against a rival home decorating magazine. IPC Media Limited claimed that the publishers of HOME magazine, Highbury-SPL Publishing Limited, had copied the covers and certain parts of the internal sections of three issues of IDEAL HOME. The High Court found no copying … Read more
