The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act is current UK law. It gives the creators of literary, dramatic, artistic and musical works the ability to control and limit the way their work is used by others, and rights cover broadcast/public performance, copying, adapting, issuing, renting/lending to the public.
When do rights occur?
Copyright is an automatic right, and arises whenever an individual or company creates a piece of work regarded as an original.
Names, titles, short phrases and colours are not usually considered unique enough to be covered by copyright laws.
Work that expresses an idea is protected, but the actual idea is not. (E.g. An idea for a book is not protected, but the actual content of the book is. Another person can still write around the same idea, as long as they are not directly copying.)
Restricted Acts
Without consent of the owner, it is against the law to:
Copy the work
Rent, lend or issue copies of the work to the public
Perform, broadcast or show the work in public
Adapt the work
Legal acts include:
Private and research study purposes
Performance, copies or lending for educational purposes
Criticism and news reporting
Incidental inclusion
Copies and lending by librarians
Format shifting or back up of a work yo own for personal use
Caricature, parody or pastiche
Acts for the purposes of royal commissions, statutory enquiries, judicial proceedings and parliamentary purposes
Recording of broadcasts for the purposes of listening or viewing at a more convenient time
Producing a back up copy for personal use of a computer program
Source(s): copyrightservice.co.uk
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