Copyright - FBT Productions, LLC v Let Them Eat Vinyl Distribution Ltd and Another
Vinyl Record Author Evan-Amos Licence Dedicated to the public by the author Source Phonograph Record Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Hacon) FBT Productions, LLC v Let Them Eat Vinyl Distribution Ltd and another [2019] EWHC 829 (IPEC) This was a claim for infringement of copyright in the sound recording of an album called Infinite by Marshall Bruce Mathers III who is better known as Eminem . The claimant, a Detroit record company, alleged that the first defendant had made vinyl copies of Infinite which it supplied to the second defendant for resale to the public. Neither defendant denied those acts but they challenged the claimant's claim to copyright and the second defendant denied that it knew or had reason to believe that the items that it sold were infringing copies. The Issues The action came on for trial before His Honour Judge Hacon. At paragraph [5] of his judgment, he identified three issues in dis...