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IP/N/1/GBR/C/87  
 
7 April 2021  
(21-2863)  Page: 1/2 
Council for Trade -Related Aspects of  
Intellectual Property Rights  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS  
UNDER ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE TRIPS AGREEMENT  
UNITED KINGDOM : THE COPYRIGHT (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 2016  
Notifying Member  UNITED KINGDOM  
 
Details of the notified legal text  
 
Title The Copyright (Amendment) Regulations 2016  
Subject matter  Copyright and related rights  
Nature of 
notification  [X] Main dedicated intellectual property law or regulation  
[  ] Other law or regulation  
Link to legal text* https://ip -documents.info/2021/IP/GBR/21_1570_00_e.pdf  
Notification status  [  ] First notification  
[X] Amendment or revision to notified legal text  
[  ] Replacement or consolidation of notified legal text(s)  
Previous 
notification(s) 
referred to  IP/N/1/GBR /C/1 
Brief description of the notified legal text  
 
Paragraph 6(1) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 prevents copyright from subsisting 
in an artistic work made before 1st June 1957 which at the time when the work was made constituted 
a design capable of registration under the Registered Designs Act 1949 or under the enactments 
repealed by that Act, and was used, or intended to be used, as a model or pattern to be multiplied 
by an industrial process.  
 
These Regulations amend  paragraph 6 to Schedule 1 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 
in order to clarify how article 10 of Directive 2006/116/EC of the European Parliament and of the 
Council of 12 December 2006 (O.J. No. L 372, 27.12.2006 p. 12) ( "the Term Directive ") is 
implemented. A new sub -paragraph is inserted which provides that paragraph 6(1) does not apply 
to an artistic work which was on 1st July 1995 protected under the law of another EEA state relating 
to copyright or related rights.  
 
Language(s) of 
notifi ed legal text English  
Entry into force  6 April 2017  
Other date    IP/N/1/GBR/207 • IP/N/1/GBR/C/87  
 
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Notification details  
 
Submission date 
of notification  12 February 2021  
Other information  https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1210/note/made  
Agency or 
authority 
responsible  UK Intellectual Property Office  
 
Concept House  
Cardiff Road  
Newport  
South Wales  
NP10 8QQ  
United  Kingdom  
 
information@ipo.gov.uk  
 
0300 300 2000  
 
Outside the UK:  
+44 (0)1633 814000  
 
 
 
* Links are provided to texts of laws and regulations notified under the TRIPS Agreement in the form 
supplied by the Member concerned; the WTO Secretariat does not endorse or revise their content.  