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Cummins v Bond

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61:, who was present in the session, and after she wrote it, Bond typed the message himself. Bond claimed copyright on the resulting text because it was addressed to him and typed by him. 184: 53:
who used a pen to write down a message that she claimed to been written by a 1900-year-old spirit, Cleophas. The message was addressed to an
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and therefore the copyright holder and sole author was Cummins because she was the one who held the pen.
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After two days of court hearings, the court decided that it had no
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copyright
England
ghost
medium
Geraldine Cummins
medium
architect
Bligh Bond
jurisdiction
afterlife
Sweat of the brow
"What is copyright? | Pace Legal Online Business"
the original
"The Patry Copyright Blog: Authorship and Religion"


"Writer, Medium, Suffragette, Spy? The Unseen Adventures of Geraldine Cummins"
http://www.jaani.net/resources/law_notes/intellectual_property/02_Subsistence.pdf
http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/valr13&div=9&id=&page=
Categories
United Kingdom copyright case law
1927 in case law
1927 in British law
High Court of Justice cases

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