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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 Norwegian copyright act does not address public domain directly. The Norwegian copyright law defines two basic rights for authors: economic rights and moral rights. [..] For material that is outside the scope of copyright, the phrase «i det fri» («in the free») is used. This corresponds roughly to the term «public domain» in English.
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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United Kingdom intellectual property law is a part of English property law which concerns the rights of intangible but valuable information or rights. [1] It covers in particular: United Kingdom trade mark law
Section 30(1) of the 1988 Act provides that the fair dealing exception is valid if the material is being copied for criticism or review. For it to apply, the infringer must be able to show that the dealing was for criticism or review, that the infringed work was previously made available to the public, that the dealing was fair, and that the dealing was accompanied by an acknowledgement.
The interplay of copyright law and competition law is increasingly important in the digital world, as most countries' laws allow private contracts to over-ride copyright law. Given that copyright law creates a legally sanctioned monopoly, balanced by "limitations and exceptions" that allow access without the permission of the copyright holder ...
The act amended existing UK copyright law, as recommended by a royal commission in 1878 [3] and repealed all previous copyright legislation that had been in force in the UK. [4] The act also implemented changes arising from the first revision of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works in 1908.