A comedian who has sued the Steve Coogan production company claims that it has copied its groundbreaking YouTube show has received a devastating £ 61,000 court law after losing the Supreme Court.
Harry Deansway claimed that Mr. Coogan's baby cow productions stole the size of his show 'Shambles' and reused it for Baby COW's 2022 series 'Live at the Moth Club'.
Harry claims that by bringing the claim to Baby Cow, he is completely 'banned' in the comeding world.
Mr Deansway – real name Joshua Rinkoff – said that the two shows give striking similarities, both with a mix of actual stand -up with a sitcom that takes place in a real comedy club.
But Baby Cow moisture against the claim of the High Court and claimed that their show – a mockumentary broadcast on TV -channel, Dave – is not a copy of mess.
They also claimed that Mr Deansway's show was not original, but reproduced ideas that were already used in comic classics, including Seinfeld and the Muppet Show.
Recorder Amanda Michaels took the claim of Mr Deansway last week and has now ordered him to pay the accounts of the baby cow's lawyers up to a total of £ 61,000.
Harry Deansway, real name Joshua Rinkoff, depicted outside the High Court, where he brought a business against Steve Coogan's baby cow productions
Baby Cow, partly founded by Mr. Coogan, argued that ruins was not at all original and that their show was different
She said that a 'huge amount' had been issued to the dispute, but the court rules in cases of intellectual property limited the bill of Mr Deansway to £ 61,000.
At the Supreme Court in November, the judge heard that Mr Deansway's Shubbles show was based on his own experiences as a promoter in a comedy club in London.
Suiting in two series on YouTube in 2013 and 2015, it contained a mix of real life stand-up comedy with a sitcom-based backstage and involving the artists.
His lawyers argued that Shubbles is protected as a 'dramatic work' under copyright designs and patent ACT 1988 and that his copyright was violated by the 'Moth Club' of Baby Cow.
Baby Cow is the home of many comedies, including the beloved Alan Partridge
Barrister, Dr. Timothy Sampson, said that Mr Deansway 170 had identified similarities between the two shows, which 'simply could not all arise by chance'.
They include the setting in a real comedy club, mixing live acts with sitcom elements, using a fly-on-the-wall documentary style and countless 'parallel characters'.
There were also 'similar/identical walking jokes' in the two shows, including the owner of the club who tried to repair the expired state.
Decosway gave evidence and said that the adoption of such a big name player like Mr. Coogan's company had serious consequences for his comedy career.
“As a result of the legal steps, I was banned from the comedy industry,” he said in his proof.
'I am no longer invited to different parties of the comedians and I am generally out of the comic loop. It is not considered to be done to stand up against a large production company. '
Lawyers for Baby Cow argued that their show 'apparently not copied from the other' and in her opinion recorder Michaels in favor of the company.
She discovered that the 'format' of Mr Deansway's show was not protected by copyright and, even if it had been, she would not have found it informed by the baby cow.
“The alleged similarities between the characters of the managers/owners of the clubs and their useless assistants do not seem to suggest me to copy as much as the use of stock characters,” she said.
'The incompetence of most Sitcom characters in both shows seems to me to be a shares of comical device, because competence is rarely funny.
'In all circumstances I do not believe that there are grounds to draw a conclusion that LatMC has been copied from mess.
“For all these reasons, the claim fails.”
Live in the Moth Club is set in an expired comedy club. Shown: Seb Cardinal (left) and Dustin Demri-Burns (right), which appeared in the baby Cow Show
Mr. Rinkoff said that the series is a striking resemblance to his web series, Shambles (photo), which also plays in an expired comedy club. But his claim for the Supreme Court has failed
In a follow -up hearing yesterday, recorder Michaels continued to reign that Mr Deansway is liable for the costs of the baby cows to combat the test.
“They are clearly the winning party and are entitled to their costs,” she said.
The court heard the costs of baby cows to combat the case, amounted to more than £ 100,000, but that court rules limit the order against Mr Deansway to £ 60,000, plus £ 1,000 extra costs.
