Copyright law firm uk

What is the copyright law in the UK?
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..
Overview
1stop that person making further infringing use of the material by granting an injunction.2award the copyright owner damages.3make the infringing party give up the goods to the copyright owner.
IP solicitors specialise in transactions which involve IP .
This includes: licensing and the buying and selling of businesses.
IP dispute resolution and litigation.

Who Are We? Briffa is a highly regarded intellectual property law firm that specialises in copyright. We help those in the creative industries and beyond

Copyright Infringement

Copyright is infringed by doing one of the acts reserved to the copyright owner, without the owner’s permission or without another lawful reason.
This includes copying the work in whole or in “substantial part”.
Because running a computer program or reading an ebook involves the creation of transient copies, this means that the unauthorised downloa.

How can a copyright lawyer help you?

Our copyright lawyers can help you to understand the law and if necessary, help you to take legal action.
It is important to consider how you use copyright works belonging to others.
For instance, if you instruct a photographer to take photographs for a brochure, they would typically own copyright in them.

What is a copyright and how does it work?

It is given automatically to a creator of an original work to use and reproduce that work exclusively, which protects against others duplicating or using the work without their permission.
In the UK, the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 covers copyright law, which replaced the Copyright Act of 1956.

What types of creative work have copyright under English law?

The types of creative work that have copyright under English law are set out in a statute called the Copyright Designs and Patents Act, 1988 (or CDPA).
Copyright can apply to a wide range of creations, such as:

photos

surveys

databases and software.

Who is a copyright owner in the UK?

In the UK, the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 covers copyright law, which replaced the Copyright Act of 1956.
The copyright owner may not always be clear-cut.
For example, when a business’ employees create work, the copyright owner is (usually) the business and not the employee.

Copyright for Creativity - A Declaration for Europe issued on 5 May 2010, is intended as a statement of how copyright policy could be constructed in the Internet Age.
It comes against the background of political debate within Europe to rethink copyright in an era where the use of digital content without paying fees to the creators is part of the business model for some of the largest global internet platforms.
Interests of content creators and online platform providers collide.
The declaration has been written by a group from political party European People's Party (EPP) The Declaration focuses on both the exclusive rights and the limitations and exceptions to existing copyright rulings and standards.