In re Phonographic Performance Ltd – WLR Daily

Posted November 25th, 2008 in copyright, jurisdiction, law reports, tribunals by sally

In re Phonographic Performance Ltd [2008] EWHC 2715 (Ch); [2008] WLR (D) 363

“On a reference by the Secretary of State, pursuant to s 128A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, of a proposed licensing scheme for excepted sound recordings, the Copyright Tribunal had jurisdiction, under s 128B of the Act, to consider a delivery system neutral licensing scheme as a whole and was not limited to a consideration of the terms of a licensing scheme referred thereto only in so far as the scheme related to excepted sound recordings in broadcasts.”

WLR Daily, 24th November 2008

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