concerned football betting coupons, where one of the parties claimed that the other had infringed copyright on the design of the layout of the coupon, allegedly copying the fixture lists and adopting the same headings for the separate sections of the coupon. The appellants argued that the design of the coupon could not qualify as original. It was stated by Lord Reid that the criteria for establishing originality are skill, labour and judgement. This has resulted in a rather low standard for attaining originality, although certain things are still unable to meet the criteria for sufficient originality, such as where “
there is…no room for taste or judgement” such as lists of names