Francis Day and Hunter Ltd v Bron [1963] 1A IPR 331
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Defendant published a song in 1959.
Claimant alleged that this infringed copyright of his song published in 1926. Defendant denied that he had copied Claimant’s work, and accepted that if he had heard it, it was when he was young.
Held
Possibility that Defendant heard work when he was young insufficient to give rise to inference of subconscious copying.
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