• Protection of expression of ideas

• Generally life of creator plus 70 years

• No register in the UK

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What is Copyright?

• Software• Original literary works• Original dramatic works• Original musical works• Original artistic works• Published editions -

typographical copyright• Sound recordings• Films and videos• Broadcasts and cable programmes

What type of works are protected by Copyright?

Permitted uses of Copyright

• Specific licence

• Copyright licensing schemes• CLA• NLA• ERA• PRS• PPL• VPL• MCPS

Permitted by Licence from Copyright Owner

• Research and Private Study (non-commercial)

• Criticism, Review and News Reporting

• Incidental Inclusion

Permitted by Statute

• Instruction or Examination

• Anthologies

• Performing or Playing at educational establishment

• Recording of broadcasts

• Reprographic copying of passages from published works

Education

• Articles in Periodicals

• Parts of Published Works

• Restrictions on Multiple Copies

Libraries