A children's author argued that the retailer copied one of her designs in its 2019 Christmas advert.
By Steven McIntoshJohn Lewis has won a court battle with an author who claimed the retailer had copied one of her designs in an advert.featured a fire-breathing but friendly green dragon named Edgar.
The commercial first aired in November 2019, after which Ms Evans suggested on social media that it had been copied from her own story. The retail chain said nobody involved in making the advert or a spin-off book, titled Excitable Edgar, had been aware of Fred The Fire-Sneezing Dragon.Author Fay Evans, pictured in January 2023, said Edgar was similar to her character Fred The Fire-Sneezing Dragon
Lawyers for Ms Evans accepted the advert was drawn up a year before her book was published, but argued that other elements not featured in the 2016 outline had breached her copyright regardless.John Lewis's window displays featured Excitable Edgar in the run-up to Christmas 2019
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