Mr Lilley was an author of articles which appeared in magazines in the 1990s. He was paid or he had a company that was paid for that work. The amount paid for those articles varies, but it was usually somewhere between about a hundred and two or three hundred pounds for the article. The article appeared in the periodical on one occasion usually. Possibly it was a monthly periodical. Subsequently (many years subsequently in many cases) the article has appeared on the internet because the various periodicals in question have been put onto internet via library type websites. Mr Lilley claims that that act is an act of infringement of his copyright. Held The sums which might be recovered were so low as to make the claims an abuse of process.
Judges:
Birss J
Citations:
[2017] EWHC 1916 (Ch)
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Intellectual Property
Updated: 28 March 2022; Ref: scu.591423