This guidance covers the impacts on UK right holders, businesses, cultural heritage institutions and consumers. It is not legal advice. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/changes-to-copyright-law-after-the-transition-period Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) as permitted under their Terms of Use.
Cross-border exchanges of accessible format works for visually impaired or otherwise print-disabled people may change. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/access-to-copyright-works-for-visually-impaired-people-after-the-transition-period Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) as permitted under their Terms of Use.
Customers who access programmes via EU satellite broadcasting services to avoid a charge for a UK service will need to stop after the end of the transition period. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/use-of-satellite-decoder-cards-intended-for-eu-audiences-after-the-transition-period Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) as permitted under their Terms of Use.
EEA collective management organisations may not automatically represent UK right holders and collective management organisations after the end of the transition period. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/collective-rights-management-after-the-transition-period Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) as permitted under their Terms of Use.
Cultural heritage institutions will not be able to rely on the orphan works exception after the end of the transition period. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/orphan-works-and-cultural-heritage-institutions-copyright-after-the-transition-period Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) as permitted under their Terms of Use.
Satellite broadcasters transmitting copyright works to EEA states should re-check their permissions by the end of the transition period. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/copyright-clearance-for-satellite-broadcasting-after-the-transition-period Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) as permitted under their Terms of Use.
Rules that mean UK customers can access their online content services when they visit the EU will change after the end of the transition period. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/cross-border-portability-of-online-content-services-after-the-transition-period Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) as permitted under their Terms of Use.
How protection in the EU for databases produced in the UK will change after the end of the transition period. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/sui-generis-database-rights-after-the-transition-period Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) as permitted under their Terms of Use.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered community designs. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/changes-to-unregistered-designs-after-the-transition-period Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) as permitted under their Terms of Use.
Guidance for businesses holding registered community designs and international trade marks and designs after the end of the transition period. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/changes-to-eu-and-international-designs-and-trade-mark-protection-after-the-transition-period Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) as permitted under their Terms of Use.
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