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In this issue: Copyright & associated rights Designs Patents Confidential Information IP and technology Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Copyright & associated rights Chancery Division allows claim for breach of contract (Photobooth Props Ltd v NEPBH Ltd) The Chancery Division upheld the claimants’ action in a dispute over the supply of photobooths and related accessories. In Photobooth Props Ltd v NEPBH Ltd [2023] EWHC 3478 (IPEC), delivering an oral judgment, the court found that the eighth defendant (MQ), together with the other defendants, had breached both implied and express terms of an oral agreement, including by competing with it and violating rights—copyright among them—that he had transferred to it. MQ had made false, fraudulent statements on which the claimants relied, and the defendants were jointly liable as joint tortfeasors. The court also indicated that, given the defendants’ exceptionally poor conduct throughout the...

For more common film and TV terms, see: Film and TV glossary A–B, Film and TV glossary C–D, Film and TV glossary E–H, Film and TV glossary I–L, Film and TV glossary R–S, Film and TV glossary T–W. Meme An image, video, snippet of text, or similar item that satirises or amuses, typically spreading rapidly online, with users often adapting or varying it as they share it on. Mime Within copyright law, mime is treated as a form of dramatic work. Moral rights Under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988), authors are granted personal rights (moral rights) that sit alongside, but separate from, their economic rights. Whereas copyright concerns financial interests, moral rights protect the author’s public reputation and the integrity of the work linked to them. the right to be named as author or director (the right of paternity) the right to object to derogatory treatment of a work (the right of integrity) the right...