Copyright - Rinkoff v Baby Cow Productions Ltd.
Crying mask Melpomene and laughing mask Thalia Author Tim Green Licence CC BY-SA 2.0 Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Recorder Amanda Michaels) Rinkoff v Baby Cow Productions Ltd [2025] EWHC 39 (IPEC) (17 Jan 2025) This was a claim for copyright infringement. The work in which copyright was alleged to subsist as an original dramatic work was the format of two series of comedy shows called "Shambles ". The individual who devised that format was the writer and comedian Joshua Rinkoff ("Mr Rinkoff") who performs under the name Harry Deansway. Mr Rinkoff alleged that Baby Cow Productions Ltd . ("Baby Cow") had copied his format to make a series called "Live at the Moth Club". The action came on for trial before Recorder Amanda Michaels on 4 and 5 Nov 2024. By her judgment of 17 Jan 2025, the recorder dismissed Mr Rinkoff's claim (see Rinkoff v Baby Cow Productions Ltd [2025] EWHC 39 (IP...