The SoA Advisory Clinic: Your character, Your rights: A look at the law relating to copyright in literary characters

The SoA Advisory Clinic discuss copyright.

Do you write books or scripts that revolve around a particular character (or characters) and their world(s)? You may be wondering to what extent copyright law protects you and your rights in those original and distinctive characters. Join Johanna Clarke and Theo Jones as they discuss the impact of a recent ruling from IPEC which extends copyright to cover this highly important and lucrative area – across books, stage and screen – to a level not previously ascertained.

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