BasicsOfCopyright

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"Those who want information to be free as a matter of principle should create some information and make it free."

~- Nicholas Petreley

[edit] Brain Dump (in need of a lot more work!):

  • Brief history of Copyright Law
    • Origins in UK law
      • Perpetual protection under Common Law
      • 1709 Statute of Anne
        • Fixed term protection for published works
      • Public Interest rationale for protecting creative works
      • Deposit system and the ability to control what is published
    • Gradual extensions to statutory protection
      • To international protection by reciprocal agreements
      • Advances in copying technologies leading to extensions of scope at each revision
      • Increase in commercial value leading to gradual extensions of rights
      • Copyright Act 1911
        • Consolidates piecemeal revisions of preceding 200 years
        • Abolishes residual Common Law
        • Fixed term protection for unpublished works
  • Outline of the current situation
    • Brief outline of National and International Laws
      • The Berne Convention (1971 revision)
        • Automatic protection when work is 'fixed'
      • The Universal Copyright Convention (1971 revision)
        • Less stringent than Berne
        • Brings the US into the reciprocal protection system
        • Requires 'circle c', author name and date of first publication
      • European Law
        • All EU member states bound by Berne (1971) since 1995
        • Harmonisation and enactment into national laws
      • The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
      • Further revisions which modify the current law
    • Future legislation and lobbyists
  • Types of right
    • Copyright and Economic Rights
    • Moral Rights
  • The Public Domain
    • What is it?
    • What isn't it?
    • How does work get there?
  • Original work and derivatives
    • Automatic protection v. registered copyright
    • Duration of rights in the UK
    • Waiving rights and the need for licencing
  • The Creative Commons approach
    • Benefits
    • Criticisms
  • Alternative methods of freeing work to the Public Domain


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