The Weekly Law Reports
[1981] 2 WLR 973
[CHANCERY DIVISION]
C.B.S. INC. AND ANOTHER v. AMES RECORDS & TAPES LTD.
[1980 C. No. 624]
1981 Feb. 4,
5,
6;
13
Whitford J.
Copyright
— Infringement
— Musical work
— Hiring out sound recordings
— Proprietors of shop providing record library service and selling blank tapes
— Possibility of borrowers taping records
— Whether proprietors “authorising” infringement of copyright
— Whether infringement of copyright in artistic and literary work on covers of recordings by hiring
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Copyright Act 1956 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2, c. 74), s. 1 (2)