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In brief: Please please tell me now, is there something I should know? (Gloucester Place Music Ltd v Le Bon & Ors)

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Published on: 06 December 2016

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IP & IT analysis: Joanne Frears, partner at Blandy & Blandy LLP, considers the case of Gloucester Place Music Ltd v Le Bon & Ors. Original band members from Duran Duran had sought to secure return of copyright in their back catalogue and current songs from the music publishers who own them by using reversion provisions in the US Copyright Act 1976. These provisions are specifically designed to take account of the inequality of bargaining positions that exist between artists and publishers, granting artists a right to terminate a licence or assignment 35 years after it was granted. The English courts were called on to determine the matter on the basis that the band members’ assignments were governed by English law and conferred exclusive jurisdiction on the English courts.

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