Magnussons-Jaguar Court Appeal Result
Discussion
I can't give you all a link because it was in an email - all 61 pages of it! It seems, as things clear, that Jaguar have paid reparations and legal fees, but no one has the right to make the cars commercially. You can still build one yourself though.
But I can't see where this will lead. What purpose serves the right to the copyright if you are never going to build any more cars? They can't be road-registered in the majority of the world and people are still making them for sale no matter what the law says. And as time passes ICE will theoretically disappear, unless logic takes over and we have hydrogen.
But I can't see where this will lead. What purpose serves the right to the copyright if you are never going to build any more cars? They can't be road-registered in the majority of the world and people are still making them for sale no matter what the law says. And as time passes ICE will theoretically disappear, unless logic takes over and we have hydrogen.
Firstly, a big cock-up on my part. I check exchange rates for $ & £ daily, but when I googled SEK it came up with the full stop in the wrong place, multiplying the sum awarded out of all proportion. As regards other countries, they will have their own laws on copyright but just the same it is curious that the only country where a prosecuction has been made is Sweden.Replicas are still being made in Australia and the USA for example - with no prosecution in sight.
If you want to go further where Jaguar are concerned, you might like the story of Jaguar buying a collection of 543 cars in 2014 from a collector, announcing that this was to be the national collection, and then selling them off piecemeal from 2018 onwards. The paid £60 million and after six months sleuthing I found about £5 million in receipts. And, we know that when starting the court case they themselves owned and had to get rid of a replica C, D, and XKSS used by Jaguar for driving experiences. The XKSS now belongs to Anthony Hamilton I am led to believe, the D-type was sold by Silverstone Auctions, and the C-type? Dismantled by Jaguar and offered in bits to a dealer who refused it at the price asked. Since Jaguar couldn't very well sue people for building replicas and own some themselves it is highly rumoured that the car, worth over £200,000, was cut into pieces and destroyed.No one in the UK would print the article, but it was printed last month in Jaguar Magazine in Australia.
Edited by lowdrag on Friday 24th March 13:05
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