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2 unusual facts about Copyright law of the United Kingdom


Copyright law of the United Kingdom

When the current UK copyright law was debated in Parliament, former Prime Minister Lord Callaghan of Cardiff successfully proposed an amendment entitling the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children to indefinitely retain the rights to payments of royalties for performances of Peter Pan.

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The 1988 Act Copyright law of the United Kingdom was designed to halt the casual copying of games in this way.


Motte v Faulkner

Motte v Faulkner (decided 28 November 1735) was a copyright lawsuit between Benjamin Motte and George Faulkner over who had the legal rights to publish the works of Jonathan Swift in London.


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