"Dr Wright, the First Claimant, claims to be the creator of the Bitcoin System, specifically the person who wrote the original Bitcoin code and the author of th

"Dr Wright, the First Claimant, claims to be the creator of the Bitcoin System, specifically the person who wrote the original Bitcoin code and the author of the White Paper, a document entitled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, which essentially describes the Bitcoin System. Dr Wright claims to own database rights in various iterations of the Bitcoin Blockchain and literary copyright in the White Paper and in what is referred to in the claim as the “Bitcoin File Format”. [...] Justice Mellor also accepted that Dr Wright created the Bitcoin File Format and it was the product of his own intellectual creation. The issue for the court to resolve was whether the Bitcoin File Format satisfied the fixation requirement for literary copyright to subsist."