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In general, UK law recognised the copyright laws of foreign countries (i.e., non-Commonwealth countries) only if the other country was a party to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, and to some extent, this is still the case today.
the owner of the copyright in the work, or his exclusive licensee; and; the owner of any intellectual property right in the technical device or measure, or his exclusive licensee. who have the same rights against an infringement of this right as the owner of copyright has against infringement of copyright, including seizure. The right is infringed:
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The copyright law of Switzerland has no specific law for the protection of typefaces. So far, the jurisdiction has been very reluctant in admitting legal protection of any sort to typefaces in Switzerland. However, the denied protection is not imperative since in theory, typefaces could be protected based on both copyright and design law. [7]
Attribution, in copyright law, is acknowledgment as credit to the copyright holder or author of a work. If a work is under copyright, there is a long tradition of the author requiring attribution while directly quoting portions of work created by that author. [1] [2]
United States copyright law protects original expressions but not facts, methods, discoveries, or other ideas being expressed, a doctrine known as the idea–expression distinction. Despite making this distinction, verbatim copying is not always required for copyright infringement, as paraphrasing is also prohibited in certain circumstances. [6]
The word treatment refers to "any addition to, deletion from, alteration to or adaptation of the work" – in other words, any interference with the work's internal structure. [14] This deliberately excludes translations of literary works, or arrangements or transcriptions of musical works involving nothing more than a change in key or register ...