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11 December 2015
Issue: 7680 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Copyright

Henry Hadaway Organisation Ltd v Pickwick Group Ltd and others [2015] EWHC 3407 (IPEC), [2015] All ER (D) 231 (Nov)

The Chancery Division considered a dispute about the exploitation of recordings of musicals. The court held that copyright in the recordings vested in the second defendant company, and that the first defendant company had known that it had been infringing copyright at the time of releasing certain recordings.

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