Auditors: If You Break The Law, You Have No Enforceable Copyright

I have now been challenged twice by auditors over copyright and both challenges have failed. The reason is that people who record themselves breaking the law will usually find that their claims of copyright fall on stony ground in the courts.

Footage of Marti Blagborough is copyright Marti Blagborough Audits – used here under fair dealing:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XV4RmR28xyY

Judgment in Hubbard v Vosper, [1972] 2 Q.B. 84:
http://uniset.ca/other/cs3/vosper.html

Judgment in Ashdown v Telegraph Group Ltd [2001] EWCA Civ 1142:
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2001/1142.html

Article 10 of Schedule 1 to the Human Rights Act:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/42/schedule/1/part/I/chapter/9

Section 30 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/30#:~:text=(1)Fair%20dealing%20with%20a,or%20otherwise)%5D%20%5BF3%20and

Section 171(3) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/171

Section 12(3) of the Human Rights Act 1998:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/42/section/12

Carl Orff - O Fortuna ~ Carmina Burana:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXFSK0ogeg4

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - I Won't Back Down:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlTJrNJ5lA

Theme:
“Upbeat” by Ivan Fidrovskiy
Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ivanfidrovskiy2374
Compilation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89HXwPif-3k&t=0s

Loowi’s Outro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebm_HWbBG0A
Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOSemQYWjQpUBDEszZJQrAw