The IMDb Credits - Martin v Kogan
Florence Foster Jenkins by G B Bain Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Mr Justice Meade) Martin and another v Kogan [2021] EWHC 1242 (IPEC) (19 May 2021) Florence Foster Jenkins seems to have been a rather good film about a less than good opera singer. The idea for the film seems to have been Julia Kogan's. After a trial before Judge Hacon ( Martin and Another v Kogan [2017] EWHC 2927 (IPEC) (22 Nov 2017)) an appeal to the Court of Appeal ( Martin and another v Kogan [2019] EWCA Civ 164) and a retrial before Mr Justice Meade, the learned judge found that Ms Kogan was a joint author of the screenplay and that her contribution was 20% (see Martin and another v Kogan [2021] EWHC 24 (Ch) (11 Jan 2021)). I discussed that litigation in What constitutes Joint Copyright? Martin v Kogan 29 Dec 2017, Joint Copyright - The Appeal in Martin and Another v Kogan 16 Oct 2019 and Joint Copyright - The Retrial in Mart...