What constitutes Joint Copyright? Martin v Kogan
Florence Foster Jenkins Author George Grantham Bain Jane Lambert HH Judge Hacon Martin and Another v Kogan [2017] EWHC 2927 (IPEC) (22 Nov 2017) Florence Foster Jenkins was described by Stephen Pile as "the world's worst opera singer." In 2016 a film was made about her life starring Meryl Street as the singer and Hugh Grant her husband. The film was very popular. Streep was nominated for an Oscar for her performance. The movie grossed receipts of US$44.3 million by 16 Oct 2016 according to Wikipedia. The screenplay was credited to Nicholas Martin who is a film and TV script writer. While he was writing the script Mr Martin was living with Julia Kogan who is an opera singer. There was no dispute hat they had discussed the project during that time. Ms Kogan claimed to have contributed to the script to the extent that she was entitled to be regarded as a joint author. Mr Martin a...