The Weekly Law Reports
[2004] 2 WLR 849
Court of Appeal
Peer International Corpn and others v Termidor Music Publishers Ltd and others (Editora Musical de Cuba, Part 20 Defendant)
[2003] EWCA Civ 1156
2003 July 1,
2;
30
Aldous, Mance and Latham LJJ
Conflict of laws
— Confiscatory or political legislation
— Intellectual property rights
— Cuban law regulating exploitation of intellectual property rights in Cuban music
— Law divesting claimants of United Kingdom copyright in Cuban music without compensation
— Whether English courts to give effect to Cuban law
— Whether public policy exception to lex situs rule