COPYRIGHT PROTECTION OF UNPUBLISHED WORKS IN THE COMMON LAW WORLD
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- Author: PATRICK MASIYAKURIMA
- ISBN: 9781509916962
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This book discusses copyright protection of unpublished works
including letters, diaries, manuscripts, photographs, memoranda, sketches,
private journals, government records and drafts intended for future
publication. Under contemporary British copyright law, unpublished works are
protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. In addition, the
Berne Convention anticipates that unpublished works shall receive protection.
While unpublished works are, in general, assimilated to the treatment of
published ones, notable differences in the strength of protection afforded to published
and unpublished works remain. It is the case that contemporary British
copyright law confers stronger and longer protection on unpublished works. For
instance, the unpublished status of a work assumes pivotal significance in the
framework for determining: qualification for copyright protection, the extent
of copyright protection, exceptions to copyright infringement and the remedies
for copyright infringement. The principal aim of the book is to consider
whether copyright in unpublished works is justified; a task which is prosecuted
from historical, normative and legal perspectives. Although the book’s primary
focus is the treatment of unpublished works in Britain, it also relies
extensively on materials from other Common Law jurisdictions. The book
contributes to the understanding of why cumulative protection of unpublished
works emerged, and how exceptions to rights in unpublished works evolved.
Moreover, the analysis deployed in the book aids the task of applying the law
to ‘new circumstances’.