Course Basics
- Venue - BCC, London
- Date - October 14-25
- Language - English
- Open to - Senior officials from relevant ministries and and/or collective management organizations
- Application Form
WIPO/BCC Training Course on Copyright and Related Rights
This training course is organized in cooperation with the British Copyright Council (BCC).
Content and Structure
- United Kingdom Copyright Law: general overview in the context of national, international and regional developments;
- overlap between copyright, trademarks, patents and design;
- traditional knowledge;
- copyright and developing countries, including a project on perspective of developing countries;
- copyright and competition law;
- copyright and parallel imports;
- role of the government in relation to IP including policy development and consultative process;
- publishers’ rights and interests;
- moral rights of authors and performers;
- rights in software and computer programs, including business methods;
- authors’ rights and interests: literary and dramatic works legal basis and case law; publishing contracts and the relationship between authors, agents and their publishers;
- broadcasters’ rights and interests;
- broadcasting agreements and the work of script and screen writers;
- managing contributor rights at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in the digital environment;
- rights and interests of directors and producers;
- copyright licensing agency - reprographic copying and the work of the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA);
- licensing for educational use;
- public lending right in the United Kingdom;
- copyright awareness - the role and activities of the British Music Rights;
- copyright action in the United Kingdom - a case study;
- interagency cooperation in the enforcement of copyright;
- enforcement of copyright - the experience of the computer program/games producers;
- copyright from the perspective of the judiciary;
- visit to the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI) or the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI);
- IFPI’s policy approach, dealing with internet and hard copy piracy and counterfeiting including use of forensics in court proceedings;
- presentation by the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) Anti-Piracy Unit;
- issues for image collections and libraries holding copyright protected and public domain works, and the digitization of libraries;
- country reports; developing countries - project reports.
