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What does Copyright mean?

Any property right over certain creative works, which grants exclusive right to the owner.

Copyright is created by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and enables the owner to exclude others from, amongst other things, reproducing, issuing copies to the public, publically performing the work and communicating it to the public.

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Any property right over certain creative works, which grants exclusive right to the owner.

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Duration of copyright

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Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Schedule

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