Robin Meakin claimed that the BBC stole his gameshow ideas and infringed the copyright in his submitted proposals. Mr Justice Arnold concluded that the case should not go to full trial as the claims were not realistic and there was not sufficient similarity between the BBC broadcasts and Mr Meakin’s proposal to give rise to ‘any inference of copying’. The copyright in the concepts and ideas behind the programme proposal could represent infringement but, in this case, it was found that the ideas were generally ‘at a fairly high level of abstraction’ and there was little chance of the claimant succeeding in proving that a substantial part of the expression of the proposal had been copied. This judgment will be relevant to all FE and HE staff interested in copyright. More information on this article is available at: http://www.out-law.com/page-11356.