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Ultraframe UK Ltd v Fielding
[2003] EWCA Civ 1805, [2004] RPC 24
Key Principle
A person owns design right or copyright in designs as a commissioned or employed work only if, at the time the designs were made, he was under a contractual obligation (of employment or commission) to produce them; where the designer was free to make the designs when he chose and was under no such prior obligation, neither his company nor its successors acquire title to those design rights.
Area of Law
General
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