ABSTRACT

It is possible for a number of intellectual property rights to exist in the slimming powder produced by Whoosh!

Copyright may subsist in the instructions and in the art work on the packet of Whoosh! The instructions on the packet of slimming powder are a literary work under s 1(1) of the CDPA 1988. In Exxon Corporation v Exxon Insurance (1982), it was held that a literary work is one that conveys information or instruction. Copyright exists in the expression of the words, not the information itself.