Sheena Sheikh Brown summarises the judge's combined UK/EU approach to copyright infringement, studying the case of Shazam Productions Ltd v Only Fools The Dining Experience Ltd & Ors [2022] EWHC 1379 (IPEC).
The Intellectual Property and Enterprise Court (IPEC) ruled that a fictional character is capable of copyright protection as a literary work and each script for the series Only Fools and Horses is protected as a dramatic work, therefore meaning that Del Boy is protected by copyright as well as passing off!