The Weekly Law Reports
[2001] 2 WLR 967
Chancery Division
Ashdown
v
Telegraph Group Ltd
2000 Dec 13,
14;
2001 Jan 11
2001 Jan 11
Sir Andrew Morritt V-C
Copyright
— Infringement
— Defence
— Freedom of expression
— Newspaper articles using extracts from copyright owner's work
— Whether copyright law restricting right to freedom of expression more than necessary in democratic society
— Whether facts of individual cases to be examined to assess whether protection of freedom of expression requiring additional defences
—
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c 48)
—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s. 12, Sch. 1, Pt I, art 10