Mark Lawson
gets it wrong on the ideas-expression dichotomy in the
Guardian when comparing Raymond Blanc's
Restaurant with Alan Sugar's
Apprentice. But others have long made the case for - and mooted options regarding - the protection of TV formats under UK and EC law (
1,
2,
3) (...under French law? -
1,
2; Australian law? -
1), not least resulting from the sheer scale of the international trade (£1.6B in 2004 according to
FRAPA and ScreenDigest).
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