Final Reminder; The X-Factor
Are you lot game for a petty theory?
The lecture, inwards the Current Legal Problems series, takes house at 6pm today inwards UCL's Bentham House, conveniently near Euston Station. Mr Justice Lightman is inwards the chair.
The BBC reports on the activity brought yesteryear Simon Fuller against The X Factor which, he claims, infringes the format of his Pop Idols programme. Fuller claims that the ITV1 exhibit copies his Pop Idol format. Fuller's fellowship nineteen TV, which created Pop Idol in addition to American Idol, is taking activity against FremantleMedia, Cowell in addition to his firms Simco in addition to Syco. Cowell, who became a family refer every bit a Pop Idol estimate inwards 2001, called the claim "utterly ridiculous".
The lawsuit continues. volition pick out you lot the result. He expects, though that the courtroom volition stick to the political party describe that in that place is no copyright inwards a TV programme format.
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