Football Association Premier League Ltd v QC Leisure and others – WLR Daily

Posted January 7th, 2013 in copyright, EC law, interpretation, law reports, sport, telecommunications by sally

Football Association Premier League Ltd v QC Leisure and others [2012] EWCA Civ 1708; [2012] WLR (D) 392

“Section 72(1)(c) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended, which provided, inter alia, that the showing or playing in public of a broadcast to an audience who had not paid for admission to the place where the broadcast was to be seen or heard did not infringe any copyright in any film included in it, provided a defence to the act of communicating a film included in a broadcast to the public, which would otherwise be an act restricted by copyright under section 20 of the Act.”

WLR Daily, 20th December 2012

Source: www.iclr.co.uk