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Gold Rock Corporation Limited and another v Nylund Hylton
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Expediente y fuentes
- Nombre
- Gold Rock Corporation Limited and another v Nylund Hylton
- Cita
- [2015] UKPC 17; JCPC 2013/0031
- Tribunal
- Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on appeal from The Bahamas
- Instancia
- final appellate court for The Bahamas
- Fechas
- Decisión
- 2015-04-20
- Audiencia
- 2015-03-09
- Estado
- resolved-final-appellate-merits
- Resultado
- Appeal allowed and Gray-Evans J's judgment restored: damages to be assessed by the Registrar; injunction against reproducing the plans and making forms/tanks reproducing them; delivery up of HC8 and LAD5; and the trial order that Hylton pay fifty percent of the plaintiffs' costs. The Board invited costs submissions if the parties could not agree the appeal costs.
- Resumen
- Copyright protected the technical drawing itself, not the septic tank or manufacturing technique described; direct copying and authorization were established.
- Antecedentes
- Gold Rock used Del Zotto's technical drawing LAD5 for a 950-gallon septic tank. Former employee Nylund Hylton had access, photographed and sketched the work, and was linked to a later drawing HC8 containing matching dimensions and errors used by Hylton's Concrete.
- Historia procesal
- Gray-Evans J heard evidence in December 2010 and May–June 2011 and on 20 January 2012 found copying of the drawing, authorized by Hylton, while rejecting proof that the tank or mould was protected or copied. The Court of Appeal reversed on the useful-article provision. The Privy Council heard the appeal on 9 March 2015.
- Cuestión jurídica
- Whether copyright in a technical drawing of a useful article was excluded by the former Act's useful-article provision, and whether copying and authorization were proved.
- Criterio
- Copyright protected the technical drawing itself, not the septic tank or manufacturing technique described; direct copying and authorization were established.
- Fundamento decisivo
- The former useful-article provision did not strip copyright from the technical drawing itself; protection of that expression remained distinct from protection of the useful tank or manufacturing method, and the factual record established direct copying and authorization.
- Límites
- Human-made drawing under the repealed Act. Its current relevance is the analogous separability text in ss. 2(3) and 80 of the 2024 Act; it does not decide prompt authorship, generated expression or registration.
- Relevancia
- doctrina-general
- Referencias relacionadas
- Peso del precedente
- Final appellate disposition binding for The Bahamas within its statutory and factual scope. Integración/votación: Lord Mance, Lord Wilson, Lord Sumption, Lord Carnwath and Sir Kim Lewison; unanimous Board, judgment by Sir Kim Lewison. unanimous five-member Board: Lord Mance, Lord Wilson, Lord Sumption, Lord Carnwath and Sir Kim Lewison; judgment delivered by Sir Kim Lewison
- Fuente
- Referencia
- Gold Rock Corporation Limited and another v Nylund Hylton
- Enlace
- Consultar fuente
- Autoridad
- Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on appeal from The Bahamas
- Tipo
- official_full_final_appellate_judgment
- Tipo de evidencia
- official_full_final_appellate_judgment
- Localizador
- paras. 1, 3–16 and 20; complete official judgment read
- Verificación documentada
- Sí