There is widespread appreciation among education sector organisations of the value of intellectual property. We can advise you how best to protect your assets and avoid infringing the rights of others.
The names and crests of educational institutions can be extremely valuable. The more substantial institutions register these trade marks in order to protect them from misuse, and we frequently provide this registration service.
The rules surrounding the ownership and infringement of copyright are very complex and often counter-intuitive. Every day, educational institutions create copyright works, and use other people's copyright works. We advise how to avoid the many pitfalls associated with copyright.
The complex area of performers' rights is of particular relevance to many educational institutions. It is important for the reputation of an academy that it requires respect for the rights of its staff and students in their performances. We can advise on how this is best achieved.
We frequently advise on issues arising in relation to the Internet. For example, how best to secure rights in your website, and how to remove infringing material from websites owned by third parties.
Our intellectual property team is regularly instructed to advise all forms of education sector organisations on a wide spectrum of intellectual property issues.
Work experience/case studies:
- Successfully acting for the Joint Council for Qualifications in high profile litigation against a producer of fake A Level and GCSE certificates.
- Routinely registering school names and crests as trade marks in the UK and overseas.
- Routinely acting for schools in order to achieve the removal from the internet of abusive material published by parents and pupils. This work is often linked to advice on the production of policies for the responsible use of e-mail and the internet.
- Advising schools on agreements with prospectus and website designers, and acting for schools in disputes over copyright in prospectuses and websites.
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