Copyright:Davies v Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club

Author Pumbaa80 Licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 unported Source Wikipedia: Portal Association Football Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Nugee) Davies v Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club (1986) Ltd [2019] EWHC 1252 (Ch) (15 May 2019) This was a claim for infringement of copyright . The football club, Wolverhampton Wanderers , known as Wolves, has a stylized wolf's head as a logo. It can be seen at the centre of the menu bar of the club's website and in lots of photos. The club has used that logo on players' shirts, signage, programmes, business stationery and so on ever since 1979. In the early 1960s when the claimant was at secondary school he drew stylized animal heads including that of a wolf which bore a considerable resemblance to the club's logo. In this action, he claimed that copyright subsists in his drawings as original artistic works and that Wolves had infringed his copyright by...