PHONOGRAPHIC PERFORMANCE (SOUTH EAST ASIA) LTD. (Suing on behalf of itself and all other recording companies which have authorized International Federation of The Phonographic Industry to collect licence fees in respect of the public performance of sound recordings and music/karaoke videograms) v LOST CITY LIMITED trading as Club Lost City

Read the full judgment text of HCA 014635/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 10 December 1997.

1. This assessment follows judgment by consent of the parties and an order for enquiry as to the plaintiff's damages sustained from the defendant's admitted infringements of copyrights under the plaintiff's control. It is undisputed that the plaintiff's status is that of a collecting society acting either on authority or assignment from its members to collect revenue in respect of the public performance of copyrighted items of broadcast music. The copyrights under the plaintiff's control are con