The High Court of England and Wales held that a cartoon based on a cartoon lion that had been used by the Football Association in 1966 did not infringe copyright since, although there was actual copying, the later work did not reproduce a substantial part of the original.

The issue arose in the context of a dispute over an application by Jules Rimet Cup Ltd (JRCL) to register the later work as a trademark: the court held that JRCL had applied to register the trade marks in bad faith.

Jules Rimet Cup Ltd v The Football Association Ltd [2007] EWHC 2376 (Ch) (18 October 2007)