John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Copyright – Infringement – Innocence as a statutory defence – Copyright Act 1911, (c 46),
s 8.
In an action for damages (i) for infringement of the copyright in a certain publication, and (ii)
for conversion, the defendants admitted the infringement, but contended that, as they were
not aware and had no reasonable ground for suspecting that copyright subsisted in any work
of which the copyright had been infringed by the printing and publishing the story
complained of, they were protected by the Copyright Act 1911, s 8.