Other protection

The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended) sets out a number of other important rights associated with the creation of works:

Moral rights

Moral rights, such as the right to object to the derogatory treatment of your work, last for as long as copyright lasts in the work.  Moral rights cannot be sold or transferred but the the creator can waive or chose not to exercise them.

Performers' rights

Performers have various rights in their performances as well as in the recordings or broadcasts of their performances.

Publication right

Publication right gives you rights equivalent to copyright if you publish for the first time a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or a film in which copyright has expired.

Database right

In addition to or instead of copyright protection, a database may be protected by the 'database right'. This is intended to protect and reward investment in the creation and arrangement of databases.

Conditional access technology

Conditional access technology generally refers to technical measures, such as smart cards or other decoders, which allow you to view or listen to encrypted broadcasts.

Copy protection devices

For copyright material issued to the public in an electronic form, you can use technical measures so that it is not possible to make a copy of the material, that is, it is copy-protected.