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High Court makes award of €150,000.00 by way of damages for infringement of intellectual property rights to the plaintiffs and their production company arsing from the unauthorised broadcasts of the plaintiff’s DVD on the defendant’s TV channel, on the grounds that the defendant, now in liquidation, breached the plaintiffs’ various intellectual property rights by broadcasting on a number of occasions his work without his authority and without notice to him.
Intellectual property rights – DVD of “Voice of Hope” was forwarded by the second named plaintiff to the defendant for review as is standard practice within the entertainment industry for the procurement of licensing fees – unauthorised broadcasts of the plaintiff’s production as per the DVD were aired on Irish TV – unauthorised broadcast of “Voice of Hope” by Irish TV has impacted on the first named plaintiff’s reputation in that the production as a whole has been devalued – defendant breached the plaintiffs’ various intellectual property rights by broadcasting on a number of occasions the work of Mr. Tommy Fleming without his authority and without notice to him – award of €100,000.00 by way of damages for infringement of the intellectual property rights – award of €50,000.00 by way of damages as a contribution to the monies expended by the third named plaintiff.
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