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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Caroline Davies

Bonnet de douche, Rodney! Del Boy becomes a literary work in court ruling

Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst), Del Boy (David Jason) and Grandad (Lennard Pearce) in Only Fools and Horses.
Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst), Del Boy (David Jason) and Grandad (Lennard Pearce) in Only Fools and Horses. Photograph: Allstar Picture Library Ltd./Alamy

Derek “Del Boy” Trotter, the aspirational market trader in the TV sitcom Only Fools and Horses, would probably raise a proud lovely jubbly toast to his newly acquired status of “literary work” following a high court copyright ruling he would hail as cushty.

Del Boy’s status was legally defined after a company, set up by the creator of the award-winning BBC comedy, won its copyright battle with the operators of an “interactive theatrical dining experience” Only Fools the (Cushty) Dining Experience.

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