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Temple Island: the red bus and Westminster

Decision date · 12 January 2012

Context photograph: Westminster Bridge and a red bus, subjects of the disputed composition.
Context photograph: Westminster Bridge and a red bus, subjects of the disputed composition. Arpingstone · Public domain · Resized

The dispute

A tea company used a red London bus against a monochrome Westminster background on its packaging.

The decision

The court found that the new image reproduced a substantial part of the photographer’s original composition.

Source

Patents County Court · [2012] EWPCC 1

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