Version Superseded: 31/10/2003
Point in time view as at 01/03/2000. This version of this provision has been superseded.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Section 1.
(1)Copyright is a property right which subsists in accordance with this Part in the following descriptions of work—
(a)original literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works,
(b)sound recordings, films, broadcasts or cable programmes, and
(c)the typographical arrangement of published editions.
(2)In this Part “copyright work” means a work of any of those descriptions in which copyright subsists.
(3)Copyright does not subsist in a work unless the requirements of this Part with respect to qualification for copyright protection are met (see section 153 and the provisions referred to there).
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