Copyright: What is meant by "the Author"
Branwell Brontë's Self Portrait Source Wikipedia Jane Lambert 21 Sept 2008 Revised 29 July 2017 It is important to identify the author of a work for two reasons. The first of those reasons is that the nationality or residence of the author may determine whether copyright subsists in a work at all. S.1 (3) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 ( "the CDPA" ) provides: "Copyright does not subsist in a work unless the requirements of this Part with respect to qualification for copyright protection are met (see section 153 and the provisions referred to there)." If you scroll down to s.153 (1) you will find that copyright does not subsist in a work unless certain qualification requirements are satisfied as regards the author , the country in which the work was first published, or in the case of a broadcast, the country from which the broadcast was made. The second reason why it is important to know the identi...