Internet Watch Foundation

In R v Fellows & Arnold (1997) 1 CAR 244, the Court of Appeal had held that a computer file containing data that represented the original photograph in another form was "a copy of a photograph" as per section 7(2) of the 1978 Act.

 

Therefore, downloading an indecent photograph from the Internet was "making a copy of an indecent photograph" since a copy of that photgraph had been caused to exist on the computer to which it had been downloaded.