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A SMATTERING OF IP: KEY ASPECTS OF COPYRIGHT, PATENTS, DESIGNS AND DATABASE RIGHTS
- 1. A SMATTERING OF IP Francis Davey
- 2. What is intellectual property? • A kind of property • created by statute • devolve like property by will or intestacy • attract proprietary rights (protection via injunction, account of profits etc) • assignable etc • Each carries a bundle of “rights” • may only be done with the owner’s permission • exercising right without permission is normally an infringement • many and complex exceptions
- 3. UK intellectual property • Patents • Copyright • Performer's property rights • Database right • Designs • Registered designs • Design right • (semiconductor topography) • Community designs (registered and unregistered) • Plant breeders' rights • Trade Marks
- 4. Duration Copyright, except: Life + 70 years broadcasts 50 years sound recordings and rights in 50 years 70 years performance typographical editions of published works 25 years Database right 15 years Design right 15 years (semiconductor topography) 10 or 15 years Community unregistered design 3 years Registered designs (UK + Community) 25 years Patent 20 years Plant breeder’s rights 30 years (potatoes, trees and vines) 25 years otherwise Trade Mark Until revoked
- 5. Copyright
- 6. Copyright: LDM works • Literary • anything written, spoken or sung • includes computer programs and preparatory work • excludes databases • Dramatic • includes dance or mime • Musical • .. but none of the above
- 7. Artistic works • Artistic works • graphical work • painting, drawing, diagram, map, chart or plan, and any engraving, etching, lithograph, woodcut or similar work • photograph, sculpture or collage • ... artistic quality irrelevant • work of architecture • building • model for a building • work of artistic craftsmanship • Photographs • any record of light or other radiation • not part of a film
- 8. Copyright: other works • Films • Sound recordings • Broadcasts (and cable programmes) • Typographical editions of published works
- 9. Copyright: rights • Copying (all or a substantial part) • Issuing copies to the public • Renting or lending to the public • Performing, showing or playing the work in public • Communicate the work to the public • Making an adaptation of the work • or doing any of the above in relation to an adaptation
- 10. Rights in performance • Live performances • performers • person having recording rights • Some property rights • copying • issuing copies to the public • rental or lending • making available to the public • Rights against illicit recordings
- 11. Copyright exceptions • Temporary copies • Fair dealing • non-commercial research and private study • criticism or review (of a work) • news reporting (but not for photographs) • Computer programs • backup copies • various reverse engineering exceptions • Public interest
- 12. More exceptions.... Visually impaired 3 Education 6 Libraries 11 Public administration 6 Other 28 Total 54
- 13. Databases • Database • collection of independent works, data or other materials • arranged in a systematic or methodical way • individually accessible by electronic or other means. • Database directive • copyright – “own intellectual creation” • database right
- 14. Database right • Substantial investment • obtaining • verifying • presenting • Infringed by • extraction • re-utilisation • Substantial part • repeated insubstantial acts may become substantial
- 15. Fixtures Marketing etc • Lists of football fixtures highly valuable • First case, ECJ: • you didn’t collect the information • no rights for own data? • Second case: • its really creative so subject to database copyright • anyway, UK database copyright survived • referral to the ECJ