UK court grants Craig Wright's appeal in Bitcoin rights lawsuit
The ruling overturns an earlier ruling, allowing Craig Wright to appeal a lawsuit claiming copyright over the Bitcoin whitepaper and database.
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A UK court granted an appeal on July 20 that gave Craig Wright the right to argue in litigation that the bitcoin file format is sufficiently well-defined to qualify for copyright protection.
Wright, who since 2016 claims to be the inventor of Bitcoin (BTC), has filed a lawsuit against 13 Bitcoin Core developers and a group of companies, including Blockstream, Coinbase, and Block, alleging infringement of his copyrights to the Bitcoin whitepaper, its file format, and database rights to the Bitcoin blockchain.
The ruling reversed a February ruling that found Wright's arguments insufficient to show how the Bitcoin file format was first recorded, a concept known as fixation in copyright law.
"Plaintiffs may consider themselves unlucky to have had their application for leave to serve before a judge with at least some understanding of the technology involved here," reads the February decision, denying leave to appeal. With this week's cancellation, Wright reopens discussion of the case.
In a July 20 tweet, Wright wrote, without mentioning the decision, "Legal protection of intellectual property is necessary to secure the rights of creators and innovators and to encourage the production of new ideas, inventions and creative works."
Judgment of the Court of Appeal for England and Wales on July 20. Source: BAILIILa Bi...
The ruling overturns an earlier ruling, allowing Craig Wright to appeal a lawsuit claiming copyright over the Bitcoin whitepaper and database.
News
Join us on social networks
A UK court granted an appeal on July 20 that gave Craig Wright the right to argue in litigation that the bitcoin file format is sufficiently well-defined to qualify for copyright protection.
Wright, who since 2016 claims to be the inventor of Bitcoin (BTC), has filed a lawsuit against 13 Bitcoin Core developers and a group of companies, including Blockstream, Coinbase, and Block, alleging infringement of his copyrights to the Bitcoin whitepaper, its file format, and database rights to the Bitcoin blockchain.
The ruling reversed a February ruling that found Wright's arguments insufficient to show how the Bitcoin file format was first recorded, a concept known as fixation in copyright law.
"Plaintiffs may consider themselves unlucky to have had their application for leave to serve before a judge with at least some understanding of the technology involved here," reads the February decision, denying leave to appeal. With this week's cancellation, Wright reopens discussion of the case.
In a July 20 tweet, Wright wrote, without mentioning the decision, "Legal protection of intellectual property is necessary to secure the rights of creators and innovators and to encourage the production of new ideas, inventions and creative works."
Judgment of the Court of Appeal for England and Wales on July 20. Source: BAILIILa Bi...
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