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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Therefore, if an unpublished work by an author who died before 1918 is published after the commencement of the 1988 Act, the copyright will expire at the end of 2039.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.
The actual rights provided vary from nation to nation; French law treats moral rights as supreme and perpetual, and German law gives both moral and economic rights the same weighting, [2] but the British legal system has traditionally "manifested a certain scepticism towards claims that authors deserve special protection in law", [3] and until ...
However, copyright in a bill continues even if rejected by the House of Lords if, by virtue of the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, it remains possible for it to be presented for royal assent in that session. Once parliamentary copyright starts to apply in relation to a bill, it removes any other form of copyright which might have applied. [4]