A recent decision by the Court of Appeal in London, handed down in November 2023, has triggered a stream of comment and debate among scholars and art historians. The case of THJ v Sheridan does not, at first glance, appear to have much at all to do with the arts sector, involving, as it did, a dispute about copyright in a GUI (graphical user interface). What, then, might have prompted this flurry of activity and merited a reference to the case in our customary round-up of the year’s major art law developments? It was the Court’s focus on the concept of originality which led some to suggest a new dawn for this key aspect of copyright law in the UK, and particularly for museums’ digital collections of public domain works … (more)
[Emily Gould, Institute of Art & Law, 23 January 2024]
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