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To attract copyright protection, a work must be original, i.e. the author's own creation: not copied, but the result of exercising independent skill, labour and judgement;
There is copyright protection in all artistic works including photographs, illustrations, cartoons and cartoon characters
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A brief summary of the relevant forms of protection currently available in the UK for fashion designs is set out below.
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A brief summary of the relevant forms of protection currently available for graphic designs.
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There are two possible ways of obtaining protection for board games, provided they are original works. These are not mutually exclusive; a game may be covered in both ways at the same time.
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Fakes, copies or replica cars produced in other countries and imported into the UK are probably not protected by copyright in the UK.
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A brief summary of the relevant forms of protection currently available in the UK for designs for three-dimensional products.
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If a designer creates a graphic design to be applied to the surface of a product, for example, a tile and that design has not been copied from any other source then it is "original" in the copyright sense.
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Original graphic works, including advertisements, are protected by copyright
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The British Copyright Council does not offer specialist knowledge of copyright and contractual issues in the design field. For more information on professional practice and application of copyright in design, contact the following organisations.
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