Publishing Law

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Machine generated contents note: pt. I law, and original works -- 1. Publishing and the law -- UK and international law -- EU law -- UK law -- 2. Copyright I: key principles -- Original ideas -- Introduction to copyright -- Copyright and intellectual property -- From scrolls to screens: a brief history of copyright -- EU copyright directive: core rights and exceptions -- Copyright: the way ahead -- Copyright works -- Literary works -- Artistic works -- Dramatic and musical works -- Sound recordings, films and broadcasts -- Internet transmissions and user-generated works -- Typographical arrangements -- Ownership of copyright -- Qualification for copyright protection -- Authors and first publication -- Duration of copyright -- EU harmonisation, UK extensions and revivals -- Duration in individual works -- 3. Copyright II: exceptions, licensing and Open Access -- Introduction -- EU Copyright Directive 2001 -- UK copyright exceptions after 2014 -- Copying Orphan Works -- Copyright licensing and collective management -- Creative Commons licensing and Open Access -- 4. Other rights of authors and publishers -- Moral rights -- right of paternity -- right of integrity -- Derogatory treatment -- False attribution -- right to privacy of certain photographs or films -- Remedies for infringement of moral rights -- Database right -- Publication right -- Human rights -- Public lending right -- Artist's resale right (droit de suite) -- pt. II Commissioning: publishing contracts -- 5. Author contracts -- How a contract is made -- Particular contracts and legal capacity -- Author -- publisher agreements -- standard author -- publisher agreement -- Rights granted -- Warranties and indemnities -- Subsidiary rights -- 6. Other contracts -- Academic/professional/STM authors -- General editors -- Contributors (text and illustrations) -- Translators -- Subsidiary rights contracts -- Online access licences -- E-book agreements -- Aggregator agreements -- Other electronic agreements -- Agreements between authors and agents -- pt. III Delivery, editing and obligations on publication -- 7. Delivery, editing and obligations on publication -- Delivery: acceptance or rejection -- Editing and alterations -- Permissions -- Production and proofs -- Obligations on publication -- Printers and publishers details -- Legal deposit -- pt. IV Publish and be damned -- 8. Defamation and other risks -- Defamation -- Damages -- What is defamation? -- Libel and slander -- Serious harm -- Defamatory meaning -- Social context -- Context of the statement -- Hidden meanings and innuendoes -- repetition rule -- Levels of meaning -- Identification -- Publication -- Defences -- Costs -- Linking -- Summary checklist: defamation -- Malicious falsehood -- Negligent mis-statement -- Obscenity -- Blasphemy -- Malicious communications -- Incitement of hatred on the grounds of race, religion or sexual orientation -- Contempt of court -- Summary checklist: other risks -- 9. Confidentiality and privacy -- Introduction -- Confidential information -- Private information -- Remedies for breach of confidence and privacy -- Data protection -- Online issues -- right to be forgotten -- Official secrets -- Summary checklist: confidentiality and privacy -- 10. Copyright infringement -- Primary infringement -- Digital Economy Act -- Secondary infringement -- Permitted acts and other defences -- Summary checklist: likeliest possible defences -- Civil and criminal remedies in the UK -- Piracy -- International copyright protection -- 11. Trade marks and passing off -- Trade marks -- Passing off -- Domain name disputes -- pt. V Sales and supply -- 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 -- Further consumer protection -- Summary checklist: consumer protection -- Distance selling -- Other information requirements on online traders dealing with EU consumers -- 13. Advertising and marketing -- Introduction -- Unfair commercial practices -- Unfair contract terms -- Business protection from misleading advertising -- Comparative advertising -- Summary checklist: advertising and marketing -- Unsolicited goods and services -- Data protection -- Summary checklist: promotion and data protection -- 14. Distribution and export -- Introduction -- Trade and competition -- Restraint of trade -- EU and UK competition rules -- Article 34 Free movement of goods -- Exhaustion of rights -- Summary checklist: competition.