Copyright

Copyright is an automatic right which exists on the creation of a copyright work which may be of an artistic or literary nature. Articles which are of a purely literary or artistic character are not registrable under the Registered Designs Act but may enjoy Copyright. There is no copyright in a mere idea and there would be no infringement of copyright if a particular work had been created without any knowledge of the previous work. The term of copyright in a copyright work may last for a period of 70 years from the year in which the author died. A capital letter C in a circle is used to denote that a work is protected by copyright and this is often accompanied by the date of the copyright work.