Copyright and Passing off - Martin and Another v Bodegas San Huberto and Others
Aerial View of the AFG Museum in Buffalo, New York Author BuffaloAKG14222 Licence CC BY-SA 4.0 Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Mr David Stone sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court) Martin and Another v Bodegas San Huberto SA and others [2025] EWHC 1827 24 July 2025 This was a claim for copyright infringement and passing off. The work in which copyright was claimed was a black and white line wall drawing by the first claimant, Shantell Martin MBE which filled one end of the sculpture court of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum . The transcript of Mr David Stone's judgment in this case refers to the "SKG Museum" in two places in the second paragraph. That appears to be an error because there is an AKG Museum in Buffalo, New York named after its benefactors John J. Albright , Seymour H. Knox II , and Jeffrey Gundlach , but the only museums that showed up on a Google search of "SKG Museum" were in Thessaloniki...