Microsoft Word ip intellectual property rights doc

Copyright is not a monopoly

If the same work is independently created by different authors, each author will own the

copyright in their own independently created work.  For this reason it is important that those

creating copyright works, in particular in the design industry, keep records of the inspiration for

those works and records of the design process, with each drawing having a date and the name

of the author included on them.

Duration of copyright

This has changed fairly recently with the implementation of the Commission directive on

copyright on 1 January 1996