'Torque off Clarkson': With the Top Gear Team All Geared Up to Go, an Examination of What Rights Exist In Formats For Television Shows-Part 2: Protection of TV Formats Otherwise than under the Law of Copyright

摘要

Part 1 of this article, published in the previous issue of E.I.P.R., analysed the ambit of protection afforded to TV formats under copyright law. Part 2 of this article now examines what legal protection formats might enjoy under the law of tort.