Copyright Protection - Digging into The Detail

Introduction

Copyright protection is an increasingly important consideration for creators, and businesses, operating in all sectors, and in all jurisdictions, particularly as technology develops rapidly - notably in the arena of artificial intelligence - and new challenges associated with developing, distributing and protecting content emerge.

This new virtual classroom seminar, which will assume a working knowledge of copyright law and practice, will address several key areas in depth.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive course will cover the following:

• Exhaustion of IP rights - the current position
• The rise of artificial intelligence - can AI-created works be protected by copyright?
• Assignments and licences of copyright:
• When is an assignment actually a licence, and vice versa?
• Conflicts of laws, particularly in respect of different regimes’ reverter provisions
• The enforceability of agreements to agree
• Assignors’ rights to royalties
• Publisher-assignees - what (fiduciary) duties are in play?
• Moral rights - what are they, how do they operate in practice, and what remedies are available?
• Copyright authors and employment - the application of section 11 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
• Incidental inclusion and its limits
• The boundaries of artistic works and how they are evolving
• Infringing works - is there any copyright protection?
• Case study - copyright in buildings and architects’ plans and drawings - rights of panorama and remedies for infringement
• Case study - ghost writers - what protections do they enjoy?
• The surviving legacy of earlier Copyright Acts (including automatic assignment reverter)

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.