Introduction
1.Marshall Bruce Mathers III, better known as ‘Eminem’, became very famous after the release of his second album in 1999. This action concerns his lesser known and less successful first album entitled ‘Infinite’, recorded in 1996 (‘Infinite’). 2.3.The defendants are related companies which operate from the same address in Wallingford, Oxfordshire. The first defendant (‘LTEV’) is a record company. It is not in dispute that it made vinyl copies of Infinite and supplied them to the second defendant (‘Plastic Head’), a distribution company. Plastic Head sold the vinyl copies made by LTEV and also sold CD copies of Infinite supplied from a source in Massachusetts. 4.Jamie Muir Wood appeared for FBT, Richard Colbey for the defendants.