112ADamages for falsely claiming copyright ownership or licence

1. This section applies if—

2. a person (A) falsely claims to be, or to have been granted a licence by or on behalf of, the owner of the copyright in a literary, dramatic, musical, or an artistic work or a sound recording or film; and
3. A has threatened or commenced proceedings for preventing, or claiming damages in respect of, a performance or communication to the public of the work, sound recording, or film (which in this section is called the event); and
4. as a result of the threat or commencement of proceedings, the event has not taken place.

5. A court may award damages to compensate any of the following persons for any loss sustained because the event did not take place:

6. in the case of a threat of proceedings, the person to whom A made the threat:
7. in the case of the commencement of proceedings, a defendant:
8. any other person interested in the event.