OPTION 2
You are working as part of the legal team that represents the celebrity graffiti artist, Pasha. Due to the need for
speed in producing the graffiti, Pasha makes plastic templates then he and his helper, Dave, use these to
spray paint the graffiti on local walls.
Pasha and Dave have had a falling out and Dave is now claiming that he is the joint owner of the paintings as
he helps create the original graffiti. Also, Pasha has seen copies of his graffiti paintings on the website of Aston
Street Crew (ASC), a local voluntary artist group.
Your senior partner asks you to summarise the law for him on behalf of Pasha in order to advise him about:
a) any subsistence of copyright in the paintings,
b) whether Dave has any rights, and
c) what action, if any, could Pasha take against ASC.
As your audience is a lawyer you should use primary sources of law. He advises you to use about 40% of your
work on issue a) and 20% on each of issues b) and c). You should reference your cases using the OSCOLA
system. You may write in the first or third person. You may also use opinion from commercial sources of
reasonable validity.
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