This resource from the Intellectual Property Office includes information and guidance on copyright.
It includes links to further resources that discuss:
Quick links:
- Copyright Acts and related laws.
- Intellectual property research: Copyright.
- Intellectual property offences.
Introduction to copyright:
- Intellectual property and your work.
- How copyright protects your work.
- Using somebody else’s intellectual property.
- IP for business: events, guidance, tools and case studies.
- IP in education.
- Seeking intellectual property advice.
- Copyright in sound recordings.
- Ownership of copyright works.
- Why you should use an IP attorney.
Managing copyright:
- License, sell or market your copyright material.
- Artist’s Resale Right.
- The rights granted by copyright.
- Warning: misleading invoices.
Collective licensing:
- Licensing bodies and collective management organisations.
- How the IPO regulates licensing bodies.
Exceptions to copyright:
- Exceptions to copyright.
- Changes to copyright law.
- Changes to Section 72: Public showing or playing of broadcasts.
- Technological protection measures (TPMs) complaints process.
Copyright notices:
- Copyright notices.
- Copyright notice: digital images, photographs and the internet.
- Copyright notice: assignment of copyright.
- Copyright notice: performance of live music.
- Copyright notice: knitting and sewing patterns.
- Copyright notice: public exhibition of copyright works.
- Copyright notice: printed music.
IP crime:
- IP crime reports.
Orphan works:
- Orphan works guidance.
Objecting, challenging and resolving copyright disputes:
- Defend your intellectual property.
- Enforcing your copyright.
- Letters alleging online copyright infringement.
- Intellectual property mediation.
- Valuing your intellectual property.
Using copyright abroad:
- Protecting your UK intellectual property abroad.
- IP protection abroad: country guides.
- Extension of UK intellectual property rights abroad.
Law and practice:
- Copyright Acts and related laws.
- Intellectual property offences.
Research:
- Intellectual property research: Copyright.
- Intellectual property research: IP in general.
Click the link on the right-hand side of this page to open this resource to view on the GOV.UK website.
