| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2001] All ER (D) 223 (Oct) |
| Court: | Chancery Division |
| Judge: | Laddie J |
| Representation | The claimant appeared in person. |
| Stephen Bate and Sara Mansoori (instructed by Simons Muirhead & Burton) for the defendant. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 16 October 2001 |
Catchwords
Copyright - Ownership - Presumption of ownership of copyright - Literary work - Claimant asserting ownership of copyright in manuscript - Claimant issuing proceedings for recovery of editorial fees - Whether claim made out on evidence.
The Case
In an action concerning a dispute over the authorship and copyright ownership in a volume of memoirs, the court ruled, on the evidence, that the claimant had failed to make out his case and, accordingly, the action would fail.
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