Copyright extends for 70 years from when the photograph was first published.
Copyright extends for 70 years from the year of the author’s death.
The composer’s copyright extends for 70 years from the death of the composer. But be careful, because if the work has since been rearranged by someone, the arranger enjoys the same copyright protection as the original composer. With gramophone records and CDs the copyright resides with the manufacturers of the record or CD for 70 years from when the recording was first published.
The following organisations in the UK deal with the copyright use of music in a programme:
The Performing Right Society
29–33 Berners Street
London WIP 4AA
Tel: 020 7580 5544
The Mechanical Copyright Protection Society
Elgar House
41 Streatham High Street
London SW16 1ER
Tel: 020 8769 4400
Phonographic Performance Ltd.
14–22 Ganton Street
London W1V 1LB
Tel: 020 7437 0311/6
Copyright extends for 70 years from the end of the year in which the author died.
One final word. If, say, an artist is commissioned to do a work, then the copyright of that work may well rest with the person or organisation who commissioned it and not with the artist.
Suppose you are shooting an item on the availability of English magazines in a Spanish holiday resort. The wide shot of the street contains a magazine-stand, which although including all sorts of copyright material such as advertising hoardings, would not be regarded as a breach of copyright. Similarly, a tighter shot of the stand itself showing a whole number of magazines would not infringe any rights. But a close-up of a single magazine could infringe copyright. It might be necessary, as a courtesy, to contact the copyright holder and ask permission before using such a shot.
