Hi All,
I was wondering if anybody knew about copyright law in Ireland. I would like to describe it by way of a hypothetical situation.
Say a company wrote an article and posted it on their website which contains information, some of which is in the public domain, some of which isn't and further comments that are based on the experience of the company. There was no copyright logo on the document even though it is only available on their website.
Another company publishes the same article (even with the same one or two minor errors that was in the first companies document) and have posted it on their website and also have put their own copyright logo on the bottom.
Would the first company have any case against the second company. How would the first company go about ensuring that any further articles are copyrighted? Is it simply a matter of puttting (c) at the bottom of the article or does a submission of the document to a copyright office have to be done??
Obviously legal opinion should be sought but does anyone have any experience?
Thanks
I was wondering if anybody knew about copyright law in Ireland. I would like to describe it by way of a hypothetical situation.
Say a company wrote an article and posted it on their website which contains information, some of which is in the public domain, some of which isn't and further comments that are based on the experience of the company. There was no copyright logo on the document even though it is only available on their website.
Another company publishes the same article (even with the same one or two minor errors that was in the first companies document) and have posted it on their website and also have put their own copyright logo on the bottom.
Would the first company have any case against the second company. How would the first company go about ensuring that any further articles are copyrighted? Is it simply a matter of puttting (c) at the bottom of the article or does a submission of the document to a copyright office have to be done??
Obviously legal opinion should be sought but does anyone have any experience?
Thanks