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The copyright, designs and patents act 1988 (CDPA 1988) gives the copyright owner exclusive rights in the UK to carry out various acts in relation to the copyright work. Activities set out in the CDPA 1988 carried out by those other than the copyright owner, without permission, may infringe the owner's exclusive rights.
There are two types of copyright infringement. Primary infringement occurs when a person does, or authorises another to do, any of the restricted acts without the permission of the owner of the copyright. Primary infringers are strictly liable, which means that their state of mind is not relevant to liability. Secondary infringement occurs 'further down the supply chain' where infringing works are dealt with or their production facilitated. Knowledge is required.
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The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988) gives the copyright owner exclusive rights in the UK to carry out various acts in relation to the copyright work. Activities set out in CDPA 1988 carried out by those other than the copyright owner, without permission, may infringe the owner's exclusive rights.Status of EU copyright law in the UKAs of 31 January 2020, the UK ceased to be an EU Member State. In accordance with the Withdrawal Agreement, the UK entered a transition or implementation period of 11 months ending on 31 December 2020 (IP completion day), during which it continued to be subject to EU law. EU law introduced, or implemented, after the expiry of this period is not binding on the UK. For pre-existing legislation, the legal position existing immediately before IP completion day was preserved for the purposes of legal continuity, by taking a snapshot of the EU law that applied in the UK at that point and (for the most part) bringing it within the UK’s...
Stage 1—preparing to bring a claim and pre-action mattersClaim preparation and pre-action matters—Practice Notes•Copyright―protectable works•Copyright—subsistence and qualification•Copyright—authorship and ownership•Copyright infringement•Interim and final injunctions—overview•Copyright—permitted acts and defences•Copyright—secondary infringement•How to run an IP dispute•Disclosure scheme—overview•Types of dispute resolution•IP and mediation•IP and arbitration•UK Intellectual Property Office—mediation schemeClaim preparation and pre-action matters—Precedents•Notice of seizure of infringing copies•Cease and desist letter—IP infringementClaim preparation and pre-action matters—Checklist•Disclosure Scheme timetable—checklistClaim preparation and pre-action matters—Forms•Application for injunction•Application notice•Notice of hearing of applicationClaim preparation and pre-action matters—News Analysis•The use of intellectual property insuranceStage 2—letter of claim alleging copyright infringementLetter alleging copyright infringement—Practice Notes•Copyright infringement•How to draft a letter of claim in an IP dispute•Unjustified threats of intellectual property right infringement•Civil and criminal remedies for intellectual property infringement•Copyright infringement—remediesLetter alleging copyright infringement—Precedents•Letter of claim—copyright infringement•Letter of claim—peer-to-peer copyright infringementStage 3—commencing proceedingsCommencing proceedings—Practice Notes•Copyright infringement•Copying software and copyright•Civil and criminal remedies for intellectual property infringement•Copyright infringement—remedies•Business and Property Courts•Copyright criminal offences•Disclosure scheme—overviewCommencing proceedings—Precedents•Claim form (copyright infringement)—the contents•Particulars of claim (copyright infringement)•Defence (copyright infringement)•Reply (copyright infringement)•Initial disclosure list of documents—disclosure oscheme in...
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Consultant’s appointment—long form design Contents This Agreement is made on [date] Parties 1 [Insert name of Employer] (Company Registration No. [insert number]) whose registered office is at [insert address of Employer] (the ‘Employer’, which term shall include all permitted assignees or other transferees under this Agreement); and 2 [Insert name of Consultant] (Company Registration No. [insert number]) whose registered office is at [insert address of Consultant] (the ‘Consultant’). background WHEREAS (A) The Employer has entered into or proposes to enter into a contract with [insert name of Contractor] of [insert address of Contractor] (the ‘Contractor’) for the design and construction of [insert brief description of the project] at [insert location of site] (the ‘Building Contract’). (B) The Employer wishes to appoint the Consultant to perform for the Employer the services as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the ‘Services’) under the terms and conditions of this Agreement. [The Employer intends to novate the appointment of the Consultant to the Contractor in accordance with clause 24.] Now it...
Environmental consultant’s appointment This Agreement is made on [insert date] 20[insert year] Parties 1 [Insert name of Client] of [insert address of Client] (‘the Client’ which term shall include all permitted assignees or other transferees under this agreement); and 2 [Insert name of Consultant] of [insert address of Consultant] (‘the Consultant’) Whereas (A) The Client wishes to [insert brief description of the [works OR project]] at the property [insert property address] (the “Property.â€) (B) The Client wishes to appoint the Consultant to perform for the Client the services as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicesâ€) under the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Now it is hereby agreed as follows 1 Definitions and interpretation 1.1 In this Agreement the following expressions shall have the following meanings unless the context requires otherwise: Additional Fee • means the additional fees (if any) payable by the Client to the Consultant pursuant to Clause 12 for performing any Additional Services which the Client may instruct...
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What is the EU law on data scraping from websites? What is scraping? Web scraping is a process by which website data is extracted (ie copied) using a web scraping program. Websites are typically coded in HTML and a range of different web scraping programs have been created which interface with the HTML code to collect copies of the data for use elsewhere. Another type of scraping relevant to website operators is screen scraping. In very basic terms, this involves deploying a program to complete forms on third party websites and then extract the output/results from those forms. Often the program will simulate a human operator to obtain the outputs (which is why websites sometimes set ‘challenge responses’ such as Captcha, requiring the user to enter a code shown on the screen to determine whether that user is a human operator or a program). Some price comparison websites use screen scraping programs. What is the relevant law? Some of the law in this area is derived from, or is, European...
How do I protect my copyright? Understand copyright subsistence Copyright recognises the skill and labour expended by an author in creating a work. It is not so much about ideas as about the way they are expressed. In the UK, copyright is not a registered right: it arises automatically: the first step in protecting it, is to identify if it subsists in the relevant work. The subject matter must also be a work and the author of a work must qualify for protection. See Practice Note: Copyright—subsistence and qualification. For the kinds of works protected, see Practice Note: Copyright―protectable works. Use copyright notices Mark your work with a simple notice including the copyright symbol, eg © Copyright Lexis®Nexis 2013. For more detailed notices, see Precedent: Intellectual property notices and Do I need to use trade mark and copyright notices?. Do I actually own the copyright? Make sure you are the owner. As author/creator you are not always the owner of copyright, although you are usually the first...
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Arbitration analysis: The High Court of Orissa (Orissa HC), vide its order dated 11 December 2024 in a petition filed under Section 11(6) of the Indian Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (A&C Act), upheld the arbitrability of disputes relating to copyright infringement on the basis that a claim for infringement of copyright against a particular person is an action in personam and not an action in rem. Accordingly, the HC appointed a sole arbitrator to adjudicate the dispute. Written by Juhi Gupta, counsel and Keyur Jaju, associate at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.
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