East African Standard Ltd v Coast Guardian Ltd
East African Standard Ltd v Coast Guardian Ltd (Civil Case No. 115 of 1934.) [1934] EACA 21 (1 January 1934)
The court held that Mr. Kinnear's précis of the Kenya Land Commission Report was an original literary work produced by independent labour and skill, and thus protected by copyright under the Copyright Act, 1911. The copyright vested in the East African Standard, Ltd. as Mr. Kinnear prepared the précis in the course of his employment. The Coast Guardian's publication of verbatim extracts from the précis constituted infringement of the plaintiff's copyright. There was no evidence of assignment of copyright to the Mombasa Times, and any such assignment would require written documentation. The de…
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- Copyright Infringement
- Assignment Of Copyright
- Literary Works
- Damages For Infringement
- Costs Award