Judge in copyright case confers status on Only Fools and Horses character after lawyers asked him to watch three episodes
Photograph: Allstar Picture Library Ltd./AlamyPhotograph: Allstar Picture Library Ltd./AlamyDerek “Del Boy” Trotter, the aspirational market trader in the TV sitcom Only Fools and Horses, would probably raise a proud lovely jubbly toast to his newly acquired status of “literary work” following a high court copyright ruling he would hail as cushty.
Described as a “part-scripted, part improvised” dramatic performance, the dining experience’s paying customers enjoyed drinks and a three-course meal while interacting with actors playing central characters from the sitcom: Del Boy, his brother Rodney, Uncle Albert, Boycie, Marlene, Cassandra, Trigger and DCI Roy Slater.
Lawyers for Shazam, a company owned by Sullivan’s family, had asked Judge John Kimbell to watch three episodes of the sitcom, giving him a box set for research. “The similarity in the dress and appearance of the characters in the publicity material for Only Fools the Dining Experience, the use of the Only Fools domain name were, in my judgment, such that it was likely to cause casual observers to consider that the Only Fools the Dining Experience show was officially authorised and associated with Only Fools and Horses.”
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