The Weekly Law Reports
[1981] 2 WLR 646
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
INFABRICS LTD. AND OTHERS RESPONDENTS AND JAYTEX LTD. (SUED AS JAYTEX SHIRT CO. LTD.) APPELLANTS
1981 Feb. 17,
18,
19;
March 26
March 26
Lord Wilberforce, Lord Edmund-Davies, Lord Fraser of Tullybelton, Lord Scarman and Lord Roskill
Copyright
— Infringement
— Artistic work
— Design
— Fabric design selected in Hong Kong
— Shirts bearing design made in Hong Kong and imported into U.K.
— Sale to public
— No inquiry as to copyright
— No prior knowledge
— Whether publication by “publishing”
— Whether infringement of copyright
— Whether damages for conversion available
— Measure of damages
—
Copyright Act 1956 (4 & 5 Eliz 2, c. 74), ss. 1 (1), 3 (5) (b), 18 (1), 49 (2) (c)
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