Judge Hacon in the IPEC has awarded a loft conversion company additional damages of £6,000, on top of notional licence fee damages of £300, for flagrant infringement of the claimant’s photographs of its loft conversions. The photographs were taken by the owner of Absolute Lofts and were fit for purpose although not up to professional … Read more
30 years ago UK photographers were at a disadvantage compared to other creative suppliers such as illustrators or composers. Copyright in a photographer’s work automatically belonged to the client unless otherwise agreed. Thanks to lobbying by the Association of Photographers and others this was reversed in 1988. Since then, copyright in commissioned photographs has belonged … Read more
Key message Suppliers of digital content should ensure that their terms and conditions and end user licences properly reflect the new rights and remedies under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 as many of these cannot legally be excluded. What digital content does this affect? It is defined as “data produced and supplied in digital form”. … Read more
In Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd & Ors the High Court has given further guidance as to what constitutes “serious harm” under section 1 of the Defamation Act 2013. Background The claimant, a French national working as an aerospace engineer in the United Arab Emirates, brought libel actions against three publishers in respect of five … Read more
