Copyright.law

 UK COPYRIGHT LAWS

According to the main website of UK gov.uk there is no copyright register in the country. A person becoming an owner of something (song, poem, logo etc) from the time is has been created. It means that you automatically protected since the time you create a piece of intellectual property.

To protect yourself more and stop other people using your work you can mark your work with © sign. Copyright protect your work from copying, making money from your work, using your work as performance (singing, dancing, playing etc) or putting your work into the internet. 

You can copyright your work with © sign, put the year of making and name. The copyright lasts at least for 50 years after your death, and at least 25 years after your death for photography. However it could be different for other types of work.

To summarise all above, if you want to protect your work you should take a responsibility and put a © signs, name, date on your work. But it doesn't affect your protection if you don't mark your work. Also if you are worried about your rights, you can search more how to be protected.

(gov.uk 2023)

 

 

Graham, S. (2015)

 

 

 

 

REFERENCES 

 

 

Service, G. D. (2015) How copyright protects your work, GOV.UK. GOV.UK. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/copyright#:~:text=There%20isn%27t%20a%20register,software%2C%20web%20content%20and%20databases (Accessed: 31 October 2023).

 

 

Graham, S. (2015) Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash, Man writing on paper photo – Free Learning english Image on Unsplash. Available at: https://unsplash.com/photos/man-writing-on-paper-OQMZwNd3ThU (Accessed: 31 October 2023).