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Performing Right Society Limited v Galleria Cinemas Limited
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Expediente y fuentes
- Nombre
- Performing Right Society Limited v Galleria Cinemas Limited
- Cita
- SCCivApp No. 198 of 2016
- Tribunal
- Court of Appeal of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas
- Instancia
- national court of appeal
- Fechas
- Decisión
- 2018-03-15
- Audiencia
- 2018-01-22
- Estado
- resolved-appellate-merits
- Resultado
- Appeal allowed; Winder J's answer to the preliminary issue reversed; costs to PRS. The parties represented that the certified issue was dispositive, although the Court noted other contractual or factual questions could otherwise remain.
- Resumen
- A musical work and the sound recording or motion picture embodying it remain distinct works; incorporation does not extinguish the underlying musical-work right.
- Antecedentes
- PRS administered a repertoire of musical works for members and affiliated societies. Galleria operated a cineplex and publicly exhibited films containing that music without the licence PRS alleged was required.
- Historia procesal
- On 28 July 2016 Winder J answered a certified preliminary question against PRS, treating the protected interest as exhausted in the physical manifestation embodied in a film. PRS appealed on 9 August 2016; the appeal was heard on 22 January 2018.
- Cuestión jurídica
- Whether incorporation of a musical work into a sound recording or motion picture extinguished the separate public-performance right in the musical work.
- Criterio
- A musical work and the sound recording or motion picture embodying it remain distinct works; incorporation does not extinguish the underlying musical-work right.
- Fundamento decisivo
- A musical work remains a distinct protected object after incorporation into a sound recording or motion picture; the statutory public-performance right in the underlying music is not exhausted merely by that embodiment.
- Límites
- Former-act, non-AI authority. It does not decide originality, authorship, ownership or registration of generated music, voices, images or scripts; it supports only layer separation.
- Relevancia
- doctrina-general
- Referencias relacionadas
- Peso del precedente
- Binding Court of Appeal disposition within its statutory and factual scope. Integración/votación: Evans JA (Actg), Crane-Scott JA and Jones JA; unanimous judgment with express concurrences. unanimous three-judge panel; Evans JA (Actg) delivered the judgment; Crane-Scott JA and Jones JA expressly agreed
- Fuente
- Referencia
- Performing Right Society Limited v Galleria Cinemas Limited
- Enlace
- Consultar fuente
- Autoridad
- Court of Appeal of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas
- Tipo
- official_full_appellate_judgment
- Tipo de evidencia
- official_full_appellate_judgment
- Localizador
- pp. 1, 10–14 and 22–23; complete official judgment read
- Verificación documentada
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