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What does Rental and lending right mean?
In practice, the rental and lending right is the right to authorise or prevent others from renting out or publicly lending copies or fixations of a protected work or performance (for example, physical copies such as CDs and DVDs, and, where supplied as time‑limited copies, certain digital formats). It is a statutory concept defined in UK and Irish copyright and related rights legislation implementing the EU Rental and Lending Right Directive. For performers, this includes the right to prevent the rental or lending of fixations of their performances, and, where the rental right has been transferred (for example to a producer), an unwaivable right in some cases to equitable remuneration. Rental generally means making copies available for use for a limited period for profit; lending generally refers to making copies available through public institutions such as libraries. Public library lending is regulated and permitted subject to statutory schemes for remuneration. These rights are used in practice through licensing (e.g. for video rental services and library lending) and by enforcement against unauthorised rentals/lending. The position is broadly consistent across England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland (under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as retained and amended) and Ireland (under the Copyright...
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Copyright describes a bundle of rights granted to makers of creative output, covering: literary, dramatic, artistic and musical works broadcasts and databases sound recordings typographical arrangements Alongside the economic rights initially vested in the creator or author, the term can also encompass extra, personal entitlements for authors and performers—often called moral rights or neighbouring rights. Moral rights are not generally harmonised at EU level and alleged infringements of them are not specifically considered in this Practice Note. For guidance on the subsistence of copyright within the EU, see Practice Note: EU—Copyright subsistence. EU copyright legislation Copyright is not yet comprehensively harmonised across the EU. Nevertheless, over the past three decades a framework of directives and regulations on copyright and neighbouring rights has developed, supplemented by a substantial body of case law interpreting that legislation. The outcome is a high—though not absolute—degree of harmonisation that has grown over time. Copyright remains a national intellectual property right, to be enforced before...

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