THIS LADY’S NOT FOR QUOTING


Outlaw draws attention to an article in the Independent which reports that Baroness Thatcher is bringing copyright proceedings against the BBC in the High Court. Baroness Thatcher alleges that the BBC infringed her copyright in her televised memoirs “Mrs Thatcher – the Downing Street Years” by broadcasting a trailer containing a clip of her describing the conspiracy that led to her downfall as "treachery with a smile on its face". The BBC admits the infringement, but the parties have not been able to agree on suitable damages. Hugh Scully, chairman of Fine Art production company, which shares the copyright with Thatcher, has said:
“A licence for the use of our archive in this way was always completely out of the question. Perhaps that is why we were never asked."

You can bet she won’t be handbagged…

The IPKat notes that this reopens the thorny issue of what damages are appropriate when the IPR owner would not have granted a licence. It is often viewed as unsatisfactory to grant a notional licence fee when such a licence could never have come into existence.

More iron ladies here, here and here
THIS LADY’S NOT FOR QUOTING THIS LADY’S NOT FOR QUOTING Reviewed by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 Rating: 5

2 comments:

  1. Imagine Thousands Of Links Back To Your Web Site From Other People's Blogs!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Sometimes, these gambles pay off, but there are occasions when they fail miserably,

    ReplyDelete

All comments must be moderated by a member of the IPKat team before they appear on the blog. Comments will not be allowed if the contravene the IPKat policy that readers' comments should not be obscene or defamatory; they should not consist of ad hominem attacks on members of the blog team or other comment-posters and they should make a constructive contribution to the discussion of the post on which they purport to comment.

It is also the IPKat policy that comments should not be made completely anonymously, and users should use a consistent name or pseudonym (which should not itself be defamatory or obscene, or that of another real person), either in the "identity" field, or at the beginning of the comment. Current practice is to, however, allow a limited number of comments that contravene this policy, provided that the comment has a high degree of relevance and the comment chain does not become too difficult to follow.

Learn more here: http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/p/want-to-complain.html

Powered by Blogger.