Read the full judgment text of CACC 000453/1998 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 10 June 1999.
1. The applicants were convicted of three charges laid pursuant to the Copyright Ordinance, Cap. 528. The first was laid under s. 118(1)(a) and s. 119(1) of making for sale or hire infringing copies of five Walt Disney films namely, 'The Lady and the Tramp', '101 Dalmatians', 'Alice in Wonderland', 'Peter Pan' and 'The Sword in the Stone'. It is significant to add that it is accepted that all of these films are in the nature of animated cartoons. The second was laid under s.118(4)(d) and s.119(2