PART I
The law, and original works
2. Copyright I: key principles
Copyright and intellectual property
From scrolls to screens: a brief history of copyright
The EU copyright directive: core rights and exceptions
Sound recordings, films and broadcasts
Internet transmissions and user-generated works
Qualification for copyright protection
Authors and first publication
EU harmonisation, UK extensions and revivals
Duration in individual works
3. Copyright II: exceptions, licensing and Open Access
The EU Copyright Directive 2001
UK copyright exceptions after 2014
Copyright licensing and collective management
Creative Commons licensing and Open Access
4. Other rights of authors and publishers
The right to privacy of certain photographs or films
Remedies for infringement of moral rights
Artist’s resale right (droit de suite)
PART II
Commissioning: publishing contracts
Particular contracts and legal capacity
The standard author–publisher agreement
Academic/professional/STM authors
Contributors (text and illustrations)
Agreements between authors and agents
PART III
Delivery, editing and obligations on publication
7. Delivery, editing and obligations on publication
Delivery: acceptance or rejection
Printers and publishers details
Hidden meanings and innuendoes
Incitement of hatred on the grounds of race, religion or sexual orientation
Summary checklist: other risks
9. Confidentiality and privacy
Remedies for breach of confidence and privacy
Summary checklist: confidentiality and privacy
Permitted acts and other defences
Summary checklist: likeliest possible defences
Civil and criminal remedies in the UK
International copyright protection
11. Trade marks and passing off
12. Sale of goods, digital content and consumer protection
Sale of goods and digital content
Summary checklist: legal ownership in sales
Summary checklist: descriptions and misrepresentation
Summary checklist: satisfactory quality
Summary checklist: fitness for purpose
Summary checklist: consumer protection
Other information requirements on online traders dealing with EU consumers
Business protection from misleading advertising
Summary checklist: advertising and marketing
Unsolicited goods and services
Summary checklist: promotion and data protection
Article 34: free movement of goods
Summary checklist: competition
Appendix A: A to Z glossary of legal terms and abbreviations
Appendix B: useful addresses and websites