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Macmillan Education / Learning Stars distributor v. school
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Expediente y fuentes
- Nombre
- Macmillan Education / Learning Stars distributor v. school
- Cita
- Court of Cassation, Commercial Appeal 7/00179/2024/27, rule 5
- Tribunal
- Court of Cassation, Commercial Circuit
- Instancia
- court_of_cassation
- Fechas
- Decisión
- 2025-01-06
- Estado
- final_cassation_rejected
- Resultado
- Cassation rejected; dismissal remained in place.
- Resumen
- No. Article 8 requires a written instrument identifying each transferred economic right and its scope, purpose, duration and place; a document appointing a distributor did not prove a copyright assignment.
- Antecedentes
- An alleged exclusive distributor for Macmillan Education / Learning Stars asserted that a school used counterfeit textbook copies and sought expert access plus provisional compensation of BHD 1,050 in case 3242/2024. The Small Court dismissed on 2024-05-15; appellate case 1562/2024 affirmed on 2024-08-29.
- Historia procesal
- An alleged exclusive distributor for Macmillan Education / Learning Stars asserted that a school used counterfeit textbook copies and sought expert access plus provisional compensation of BHD 1,050 in case 3242/2024. The Small Court dismissed on 2024-05-15; appellate case 1562/2024 affirmed on 2024-08-29.
- Cuestión jurídica
- Whether a distribution letter transferred copyright rights sufficient to confer standing and damages.
- Criterio
- No. Article 8 requires a written instrument identifying each transferred economic right and its scope, purpose, duration and place; a document appointing a distributor did not prove a copyright assignment.
- Fundamento decisivo
- Commercial distribution status is not the statutory chain of title. Copyright enforcement requires proof of the specific written transfer rather than investment, exclusivity in sales or practical control.
- Límites
- Not an authorship or originality ruling and does not involve AI. It governs derived standing and evidentiary sufficiency.
- Relevancia
- doctrina-general
- Referencias relacionadas
- Peso del precedente
- binding_or_highly_authoritative_national_cassation Integración/votación: Masouma Abdelrasoul Issa; Nader Al-Sayed Ali Abdelmotaleb; Tarek Mohamed Fathy Mohamed Amin; Dr Mohamed Ragaa Ahmed Hamdy; Dr Mostafa Mohamed Mohamed Salman panel disposition; no dissent recorded in official text
- Fuente
- Referencia
- Macmillan Education / Learning Stars distributor v. school
- Enlace
- Consultar fuente
- Autoridad
- Court of Cassation, Commercial Circuit
- Tipo
- doctrina-general
- Tipo de evidencia
- complete_primary_judicial_file
- Localizador
- official text, pp./paras represented by lines 276-428 and 503-709 of preserved extraction
- Verificación documentada
- Sí