Legislation designed to prevent people making money or reputation from other designer’s work. Many designs will qualify as artistic works under the Copyright Act. This protects a design’s visual features, which can refer to shape, three dimensional configuration, two dimensional pattern or ornamentation. Copyright is infringed if there is direct or indirect copying of a “substantial part” of the artistic work. Copyright protection of an artistic work generally lasts for the author’s lifetime plus 70 years.
Intellectual Property
Productive and often intangible new ideas that are the result of creativity, such as inventions, designs, artistic works, patents, copyrights, etc.