Joint Authorship of Copyright: UK Court of Appeal Tears Up the Script

摘要

A dispute concerning the screenplay for the 2016 Hollywood biographical comedy”Florence Foster Jenkins”(FFJ)-a film about a tone-deaf New York socialite who labours under the delusion that she is a talented opera singer – has this month produced a court of appeal decision centering on the parties’own adjustment to reality.Apart from highlighting a perhaps lesser considered pitfall of working with your other half,the judgment emphasizes the practical difficulties of applying the test of joint authorship in English copyright law.