Copyright: MEI Fields Designs Ltd v Saffron Cards and Gifts Ltd
Junction of Fetter Lane and Rolls Building Author Basher Eyre Licence Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.0 Generic Source Wikipedia Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Mr David Stone) MEI Fields Designs Ltd v Saffron Cards and Gifts Ltd and another [2018] EWHC 1332 (IPEC) (6 June 2018) This was an action for the infringement of copyright with a counterclaim for a declaration of non-infringement. The copyrights in question subsisted in artwork for greetings cards that had been created by Mel Fields ( "Mrs Fields" ). The main issue in this case was over who owned those copyrights rather than whether they had been infringed. Indeed, Mr David Stone, the deputy judge who tried the action and counterclaim remarked at para [19] of his judgment: "unusually for a copyright case, I was never actually taken to the allegedly infringing cards at issue in these proceedings." The Facts Mrs Fields worked as des...