Copyright protects your work and stops others from using it without your permission.
You get copyright protection automatically - you don't have to apply or pay a fee.
There isn't a register of copyright works in the UK..
how long copyright lasts – this is normally 70 years after the person who created the work dies. licensing and selling your copyright, including selling or transferring your copyright and your moral and performer's rights.Nov 21, 2018.
Copyright prevents people from: copying your work. distributing copies of it, whether free of charge or for sale. renting or lending copies of your work. performing, showing or playing your work in public..
The National Library of Scotland respects intellectual property rights.
We make all reasonable efforts to ensure that any reproduction, both digital and analogue, which is carried out by or within the Library, is in accordance with copyright legislation.
Find out more about how copyright protects your work, including:
You can also get local support and advice on intellectual property in Scotland.
You can also get local support and advice on intellectual property in Scotland from Scottish Enterprise's Intellectual Assets specialists.
Find out what intellectual property is and how to protect it in the UK and abroad.
