United Kingdom
- Gyles v Wilcox (1740) 3 Atk. 143; 26 Eng. Rep. 489 (a fair abridgement of a work is not copyright infringement)
- Millar v. Taylor (1769) 4 Burr 2303; 98 ER 201 (copyright is a form of property)
- Donaldson v. Beckett (1774) 4 Burr 2408; 98 ER 257 (copyright is not perpetual)
- Dick v. Yates (1881) 18 Ch D 76: a title is not long enough to constitute a literary work
- Kenrick v. Lawrence (1890) L.R. QBD 99
- Hollingrake v. Truswell Ch. 420
- Walter v. Lane AC 539 ("reporter's copyright")
- Corelli v. Grey (1913) 29 TLR 570 (four reasons for clear objective similarity between works)
- University of London Press Ltd. v. University Tutorial Press Ltd. 2 Ch. 601
- Re Dickens (1934) 1 Ch 267
- Hawkes & Son (London) Ltd v. Paramount Film Service Ltd 1 Ch 593: the Colonel Bogey case - infringement of copyright occurs when "a substantial, a vital and an essential part" of a work is copied, per Lord Slesser
- Jennings v. Stephens Ch. 469 "performance in public" as infringement.
- Donahue v. Allied Newspapers Ltd (1938) Ch 106
- Ladbroke (Football) Ltd v. William Hill (Football) Ltd 1 WLR 273
- LB (Plastics) Ltd. v. Swish Products Ltd. RPC 551 (the basis of copyright protection is that "one man must not be able to appropriate the result of another's labour")
- Exxon Corp v. Exxon Insurance Consultants International (1981) 3 All ER 241
- Express Newspapers v. News (UK) Ltd (1990) 18 IPR 201 (confirming Walter v. Lane)
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