While Laddie J. accepted, by way of dicta. that certain specific types of literary works. such as a computer data File which ‘precisely defines the shape of a three dimensional article", could be reproduced by making that three-dimensional article,
he was unwilling to embrace the general proposition that any literary work could be reproduced by making a three dimensional object. in any case. on the facts before him in the Autospin case. there was no reproduction of the literary work because the information compiled in the chart did not give an indication of the shape of the oil seal and only set out instructions for calculating its critical dimensions: