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An Act to restate the law of copyright, with amendments; to make fresh provision as to the rights of performers and others in performances; to confer a design right in original designs; to amend the Registered Designs Act 1949; to make provision with respect to patent agents and trade mark agents; to confer patents and designs jurisdiction on ...
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48), current copyright law of the United ...
Therefore, if an unpublished work by an author who died before 1918 is published after the commencement of the 1988 Act, the copyright will expire at the end of 2039. However, if a work by an author who died before 1918, say 1870, was published in 1970 (i.e. before the 1988 Act), its copyright would expire 50 years after 1970, i.e. in 2020.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Designs and Patents Act 1988, current copyright law of the United Kingdom;
There are two types of design rights: the registered design right (Registered Designs Act 1949) and the unregistered design right. Unregistered design rights protect only the shape of a three-dimensional design. [1] It subsists if the design is recorded on paper, or if an article has been made according to that design.
An Act to make provision for repeals (including a repeal to give effect to a recommendation of the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission), consequential amendments, transitional and transitory matters and savings in connection with the consolidation of enactments in the Road Traffic Act 1988 [aa] and the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 ...
This also permits typefaces to be registered as designs. [citation needed] The US allows design patents for fonts. In fact, the very first design patent awarded in the US (U.S. patent D1), in 1842, was for a font designed by George Bruce. Currently, US design patents are for 15 years from the date of grant (previously 14 years).