Copyright and design rights play a fundamental role in protecting the work that your business has invested in creating. From business plans to design specifications and reports to artistic works, sounds, webcasts and even functional designs. It is important that all businesses, even those that would not normally be considered to be ‘creative’ in nature, ensure that that they afford their ‘works’ the best protection possible in order to preserve the value which attaches to them.
Capital Law's experts can advise you on:
- the different forms of rights, such as copyright, registered and unregistered design rights and determine what level of protection can and should be obtained in order to offer your business the most appropriate level of protection
- the steps which can be taken to enforce your copyright and design rights
- any moral rights you or any other party may have in a particular piece of work (for example, the author’s right to be identified as the creator of works even when the author no longer owns the copyright)
- database rights and related rights in computer programs
- the protection of business know how, Trade Secrets and Confidentiality.
