Cases

Barrett v Universal-Island Records & Others

Comment

Although this case turned mainly on its own facts, the judgment is of legal significance in its limiting of the scope of Deepak and in its analysis of ss.182A and 182B of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, as amended. The latter were held to be 'new rights' under the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 1996, such that the defence of prior agreements in Regulation 27 was available to the Ds.

Areas of work

Copyright
Entertainment Law
General Common Law
Intellectual Property
Music Law

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