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Information to help you protect, manage, and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the UAE.
Protection in the EU for databases produced in the UK.
A collection of guidance about how to protect, manage and enforce copyright. Copyright protects original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works.
To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Vietnam.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in China.
What private maritime security companies (PMSCs) with a trade control licence must do when their circumstances change like leaving the sector or merging.
What to do where a TPM prevents you from benefiting from a copyright exception.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Pakistan.
If you own the copyright in a work, you have exclusive rights over certain uses of that work. These rights fall into two categories: economic rights and moral rights.
Licensing requirements for importers and exporters, duty rates, reliefs and import VAT for printed books, newspapers and related products.
Licensing bodies and collective management organisations can agree licences with users on behalf of owners and collect any royalties the owners are owed.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Colombia.
Information to help you protect, manage, and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Saudi Arabia.
The Marrakesh Treaty is an international legal instrument which makes it easier for blind, visually impaired and print disabled people to access works protected by copyright.
Find out if you need a licence to copy a creative work, find out if a work is covered by copyright or an exception
A post implementation review (PIR) for EU Directive 2011/77/EU which increased the term for sound recordings from 50 to 70 years.
To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Laos.
Data protection rules for businesses in recruiting staff, keeping staff records and using CCTV
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