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WaterRower: can a rowing machine be artistic craftsmanship?

Decision date · 11 November 2024

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

WaterRower asserted copyright in the design of a wooden rowing machine.

The decision

The court held that the machine did not qualify as a work of artistic craftsmanship under the domestic statutory category.

Source

IPEC · [2024] EWHC 2806

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