In what is the least unexpected decision of the year the Court of appeal dismissed the appeal- Dan Brown didn’t infringe copyright. Details to follow.
IPKat points to the words of Mummery LJ and what is a useful kick in the pants to litigators: the assessment needs to be an holistic one. Looking at isolated parts of a work and concluding that because an individual chunk of the work did, or did not, infringe then the claim, or defence, inevitably followed from the event. The case will be read and commented on further by Geeklawyer later.
Update: Oh dear; in an attempt to get a snappy headline and to ingratiate himself with younger readers Geeklawyer has slipped on his misunderstanding of youth culture and landed on his arse.
Geeklawyer has been told that ‘Da Bomb’ is approbation of the most firm and positive kind. Therefore to refer to the Da Vinci code book in such a manner might suggest he has a good opinion of it: he doesn’t, it sucks monkeyballs. Errm, he means that it is bad. Truly Geoffrey Jeffrey Archer bad.
Solecisms are always enjoyable
Is it not Jeffrey Archer?…. I know Geoffrey Chaucer - not a bad read on a rainy day!
ahem, yes it is :-[