Copyright - Pasternak v Prescott
Jane Lambert Business and Property Courts, Intellectual Property List (Mr Justice Edward Johnson) Pasternak v Prescott [2022] EWHC 2695 (Ch) This was a claim for copyright infringement and a counterclaim for a declaration of non-infringement. The claimant was Anna Pasternak . author of Lara: The Untold Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago (" Lara" ) She complained that the defendant, Lara Prescott , had reproduced part of the selection, structure and arrangement of facts and incidents from 7 out of 12 chapters of her book in The Secrets We Kept ("TSWK") . Ms Paasternak also alleged that Ms Prescott had reproduced a substantial part of a translation of part of Légendes de la Rue Potapov in which Ms Pasternak had acquired copyright without Ms Pasternak's consent. The action and counterclaim came on for trial before Mr Justice Edwin Johnson between 8 and 19 July 2022. The learned judge deliver...