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How does copyright work?
How does copyright work?
Copyright protects the creators of original text, artwork, recordings, films and computer programs. It gives you automatic control over the rights to copy, perform, broadcast or adapt your material, though limited use is allowed without your permission for private study, teaching in schools and reviews.
Copyright for literary, dramatic, musical and artistic material and for computer software lasts for 70 years. Copyright for other material lasts for 25, 50 or 70 years.
It is up to you to enforce copyright yourself. Although copyright is automatic, you may want to add the copyright symbol © or the words ´copyright - all rights reserved´, together with your name and the year of creation, to the copyright material to help emphasise that copyright exists. You should also keep copies of the original work and dated records of when it was disclosed to other people. Even so, enforcing your rights if someone adapts your work can be difficult.
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