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1. The Respondents (“Interlego”) claim copyright in the drawings of various components of their toy construction sets and in the moulds for making the components. Such copyright, if it subsists, is conferred by the Copyright Act 1956, which applies to Hong Kong by virtue of the Copyright (Hong Kong) Orders 1972 and 1979. The Appellants (“Tyco”) advance a number of reasons why copyright does not subsist in all or some of these drawings and moulds and deny infringement. Fuad and Clough, JJ.A. have