The world of intellectual property can be complex, especially when you're navigating the confusing area of protecting your rights on the internet.
Are you fully up to date with what can be protected and do you know how to go about protecting your intellectual property online?
There are a multitude of laws relating to online copyright and brand protection. This webinar will bring you right up to date with the most important legislation and case law.
This information packed session will also give you an invaluable opportunity to ask the expert trainer about any particular issues affecting your business.
Benefits of attending
- Understand what can be protected
- Learn about the laws affecting IP protection
- Get to grips with how to go about protecting your IP on the internet
- Consider what a database is and who the owner of the right is
- Appreciate the role of trade marks in protecting a brand
- Expand you knowledge of the latest law and practice
Certifications
- CPD: 3 hours for your records
- Certificate of completion
Course Content
The internet and copyright
- Basics
- Existence, ownership and infringement
- Is a work capable of copyright protection?
- Is the work in a ‘fixed’ form?
- Does the work qualify for UK copyright protection?
- Is the work still protected by copyright?
- Who is the owner of the copyright?
- Will copyright be infringed?
- Primary Infringement
- Secondary Infringement
- Are there any defences to infringement?
- What remedies are available?
- Civil remedies
- Criminal remedies
- International considerations
- Berne Convention
- Universal Copyright Convention
- Types of moral rights
- Moral rights relating to copyright works
- Exploiting copyright
- Assignment
- Licensing
The internet and database rights
- Is it a database?
- Does the database qualify for protection?
- Who is the owner of the right?
- How long does the right last?
- What protection does the right give the owner?
- Are there any defences to infringement?
- What remedies are available?
The internet and branding
- Branding
- Protecting branding with a mark
- Is a mark capable of registration?
- Registering a trade mark
- Protecting a trade mark
- Revocation and invalidity
- Dealing with trade marks
- Trade mark searches
- Other types of registrable marks
Final questions
Course Provider
Mark Weston ,
Hill Dickinson LLPMark Weston is a partner at Hill Dickinson LLP where he is Head of Commercial Law (London), Information Technology Law and, Intellectual Property Law. Mark joined the firm in 2016 from Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP where for 12 years he was a partner and Head of the Commercial, Intellectual Property and Information Technology Group, before which he spent several years at Baker McKenzie. Mark’s practice covers both non-contentious and contentious matters in all areas of commercial law, intellectual property law, information technology law, Internet, digital and privacy/data law. He specialises in commercial and tech issues. He has extensive experience in-house, having been seconded in the past to Hewlett Packard and new technology companies. His practice covers all sorts of commercial areas (including distribution, agency, franchising, sales and marketing strategies, advice and documentation) as well as extensive IT niches including advising clients regarding hardware and software issues (including SaaS, cloud, development, licensing, maintenance and distribution), solutions for and methods of transacting on the Internet, electronic commerce including B2B, B2C and B2G, S-commerce and M-commerce, social media, strategies to minimise or maximise liability and carry out compliance audits, outsourcing, facilities management, procurement, company IT policies and data protection (privacy) issues. He also has experience in IT litigation (and different alternative dispute resolution techniques). Mark writes various books on his specialist topics and is an editor and contributor to several publications and articles and lectures at numerous commercial, IP and IT-related conferences and training programmes. Mark appears regularly on BBC1 (usually providing advice on-screen to BBC Watchdog) and also on Sky News as a legal commentator.
Who Should Attend
- In-house lawyers
- Commercial managers and business executives
- Patent, IP, trademarks or licensing counsel
- Business development managers
