Tuesday 17 April 2012

Relevant Legislation


After discussion with our clients at Berzerk Productions we agreed that we were to not use the promotional video we create on any other website or in any other features. It will be copyright to them and their use only, we are simply allowed to upload it to YouTube for use and viewing. The company logo will be featured within the video to establish the copyright as a visual image. 
  1. Restricted acts
    It is an offence to perform any of the following acts without the consent of the owner:
    Copy the work.
    Rent, lend or issue copies of the work to the public.
    Perform, broadcast or show the work in public.
    Adapt the work.
    The author of a work, or a director of a film may also have certain moral rights:
    The right to be identified as the author.
    Right to object to derogatory treatment.



    1. Acts that are allowed
    2. Fair dealing is a term used to describe acts which are permitted to a certain degree without infringing the work, these acts are:
    3. Private and research study purposes.
    • Performance, copies or lending for educational purposes.
    • Criticism and news reporting.
    • Incidental inclusion.
    • Copies and lending by librarians.
    • Acts for the purposes of royal commissions, statutory enquiries, judicial proceedings and parliamentary purposes.
    • Recording of broadcasts for the purposes of listening to or viewing at a more convenient time, this is known as time shifting.
    • Producing a back up copy for personal use of a computer program.
    • Playing sound recording for a non profit making organisation, club or society.
      (Profit making organisations and individuals should obtain a license from PRS for Music.)

  • In addition, any person who effectively facilitates or compounds the effects of primary infringement may be liable for secondary infringement of copyright under the 1988 Act. However, to be liable for the secondary infringement of copyright, the person must generally either know, or have reason to believe, that copyright would be or had been infringed.

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