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THJ Systems: originality in visual risk charts

Decision date · 20 November 2023

Context photograph: The Rolls Building, where the Business and Property Courts sit in London today.
Context photograph: The Rolls Building, where the Business and Property Courts sit in London today. Muhammad Karns · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized

The dispute

The dispute concerned copyright in graphical charts produced by options-trading software.

The decision

The Court of Appeal held that the charts reflected free and creative visual choices and met the originality threshold.

Source

Court of Appeal · [2023] EWCA Civ 1354

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