12 Feb 2020
SUMMIT BUILDING SERVICES v BAXTER [2020] NZHC 143
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 143
- Court
- High Court
The High Court held the plans were original works in which copyright subsisted; Summit owned the copyright by authorship and under the commissioning rule; the respondents authorised Grigor to copy the plans and thereby infringed Summit's copyright; damages were assessed as a notional licence fee based on the provisional plan costs in the preconsent agreement totaling $5,500; Summit entitled to costs on a 2B basis and disbursements.