Course description
This webinar is suitable for corporate and commercial solicitors and in-house counsel who advise clients on transactions and commercial agreements that involve copyright works including software, website content, music, photographs, artworks, publications and computer-generated works.
Presented by Dorothy Agnew, this webinar assumes a basic working knowledge of general copyright law and practice and will explore in detail several copyright issues relating to ownership, assignment and infringement. It will also look at copyright in computer generated works, including a brief discussion on copyright in works created by generative AI tools.
Dorothy specialises in information technology, telecommunications, intellectual property, data protection and privacy. Don’t miss her invaluable guidance on this topic.
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Introduction
This webinar is suitable for corporate and commercial solicitors and in-house counsel who advise clients on transactions and commercial agreements that involve copyright works including software, website content, music, photographs, artworks, publications and computer-generated works.
It will explore in detail several copyright issues relating to ownership, assignment and infringement.
The webinar assumes a basic working knowledge of general copyright law and practice.
What You Will Learn
This webinar will cover the following:
- Ownership:
- Who owns the copyright?
- Issues that can arise when copyright is created by employees and consultants
- Jointly owned copyright
- Correcting defects in copyright ownership that arise in the context of a corporate transaction or getting the business ready for a sale
- Assignment:
- Has the copyright been properly assigned?
- Making sure that pre-existing and future copyright is properly assigned
- Is the agreement a licence or an assignment?
- Avoiding unexpected pitfalls
- Drafting the assignment document
- Copyright infringement and ‘substantial part’:
- Has the copyright been infringed?
- Establishing whether there has been copying of a substantial part and implications of the Infopaq decision
- Copyright infringement and the boundaries of ‘fair dealing’:
- Can the business rely on the fair dealing exception?
- A look at some of the case law on this exception
- Copyright in computer generated works, including a brief discussion on copyright in works created by generative AI tools
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