| The creative industries support 1.5m jobs or 5.1% of total UK employment. | Copyright lasts 70 years from the death of the author after which it is in the public domain. | UK copyright law is defined in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. | The first copyright law was the Statute of Anne in 1709. | The creative industries export 10.6% of total goods and services from the UK. | A work doesn't have to have a © symbol to be protected. | There are an estimated 770,000 original content creators working in the UK. | The law does not define what is fair for the purposes of 'fair dealing' so each case is assessed individually. | You cannot claim copyright in a name or an idea. | There is no official registration system for copyright as legal protection is automatic. | Work created in the course of employment normally belongs to the employer. |
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