Copyright Aid

Hi SamiTFS and welcome to the forum,

Provided that you do not copy any of the material then you should be covered by the doctrine of the exhaustion of rights. This says that once a rights owner has released a copy of work by selling it or giving it away, they no have further rights to control the ...

Without knowing the exact posting you are talking about, it's hard to explain, but I assume I was talking about photographs which were produced after 1 June 1957, which because copyright in them was still running on 1 August 1989, were caught by the new provisions of the 1988 Act, namely that ...

For the reason I gave in my first posting, copyright in pre-1957 photographs created in the UK, ended long ago. As you can see from section 21 of the Copyrighht Act 1911, copyright duration for photographs was not dependent on the lifetime of the photographer.

Hi savoyard and welcome to the forum,

Copyright in photographs made in the 1930s was governed by the 1911 Copyright Act. This act said the following regarding photographs: 21 Provisions as to photographs

The term for which copyright shall subsist in photographs shall be fifty years from the ...

Hi les,

Based on the details you have given I think you are wise to be cautious, but if it is a scam, it's not one I am aware of.

I would have thought the starting point is to examine you facebook page for anything which might be Channel4 material. Obviously if you are then sure there isn't ...

There would be no infringement of copyright if you photographed or draw a picture of a chocolate bar and used it in conjunction with your poem. It is also most unlikely that there would be any infringement of trade marks unless you promoted or advertised your poems using the names or logos of a ...

sandman,

Just to jump in ahead of snapperman's reply, only the copyright owner can bring a claim to court, so even if the information was available, the case details would not contain 'PicRights' or 'Pixsy' etc, only the name of the photographer. There may well be photographers who use these ...

Thanks for the update snapperman. I assume that the Jonathan Webb case which you cited was in the IPEC multi-track, not small claims track, since damages claims in the latter are capped at £10,000.

Good try, but no. Assuming that they are fundamentally the same image then copyright exists within the substantial part of both images. I imagine that one crop is the master image and the other crop contains less pictorial information than the full original. For a look at what 'substantial part ...

Hi sandman and welcome,

Irrespective of whether the limitation period starts when the image is first published without permission, or when the unauthorised use of it is 'discovered' by the copyright owner, taking the image down definitiely marks an end to the infringement. If you fail to take down ...

Hi gle.

These publishers seem a bit knuckleheaded if they are insisting on some kind of copyright registration - which is not even needed in the USA unless you wanted to sue someone and claim statutory damages*. The Berne Convention, to which both the USA and the UK are signatories, stipulates that ...

I tend to avoid the term public domain because it is so misunderstood. I prefer 'out of copyright' as it is more specific.

While the old art works on the wrapping paper may themselves be out of copyright, it is just possible that the arrangement of the individual images on the paper constitutes a ...

Hi amanidoarthy and welcome

If the books from which the illustrations were taken are out of copyright beccause the author or artist died more than 70 yearrs ago, then there would be no infringement of copyright by a trader producing facsimiles. Indeed there is a burgeoning trade in print-on-demand ...

Hi Andy and welcome to the forum,

With the headlines, you are probably on reasonably strong ground, provided that the text is under, say, ten words. This assessment is based on avery well-known (in legal and journalistic circles at least) legal case called Infopaq .
However quoting the headline ...

Hi Sally,

As someone whose wardrobe contains mainly shabby without any chic, I had to Google Magnolia Pearl to find out what they were all about.

I have to confess that I don't understand which elements of their clothing constitute the 'added' part which I would associate with the term appliqué ...