The SoA Advisory Clinic: Your character, Your rights: A look at the law relating to copyright in literary characters

15/05/2023 46 min Temporada 1 Episodio 4
The SoA Advisory Clinic: Your character, Your rights: A look at the law relating to copyright in literary characters

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Do you write books or scripts that revolve around a particular character (or characters) and their world(s)? You may be wondering to what extent copyright law protects you and your rights in those original and distinctive characters. Join Johanna Clarke and Theo Jones as they discuss the impact of a recent ruling from IPEC which extends copyright to cover this highly important and lucrative area – across books, stage and screen – to a level not previously ascertained. Show notes: Not an SoA member? Join today with discount code PODCAST20 to get 20% off your first year's membership. This is Not a Pity Memoir by Abi Morgan | Hachette UK  Watch Daisy Jones & the Six - Season 1 | Prime Video (amazon.co.uk)  Children's Laureate of Wales wins Imison Award - The Society of Authors  BBC Radio 4 - Drama, The Making of a Monster  BBC Radio 4 - Drama, End of Transmission  Authors lose appeal over Da Vinci Code plagiarism | UK news | The Guardian  Klinger v. Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd. | Case Brief for Law School | LexisNexis  Shazam Production Ltd v Only Fools The Dining Experience Ltd & Ors. - Find case law (nationalarchives.gov.uk)  Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (legislation.gov.uk)  Copinger and Skone James on Copyright - Paperback | Intellectual Property | Sweet & Maxwell (sweetandmaxwell.co.uk)  Exceptions to copyright - Guidance for creators and copyright owners (publishing.service.gov.uk)  Colin the Caterpillar | Food News, Inspiration & Recipes | M&S (marksandspencer.com)  Aldi Stores UK on Twitter: "Where else would we announce it? #CuthBack https://t.co/DWOJzBceoL" / Twitter  Search for a trade mark - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) 

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