A copyright is considered "intangible personal property" and can be owned by one or more persons or a company or a governmental agency.
Unless other arrangements are made, the creator of the work is automatically its copyright holder. Ownership can be transferred by contract, or can be inherited. However, transfer of a copyright is far less common than licensing of the copyright.
Yes; if you write a book and I illustrate it, we can be co-owners of the copyright.
Copyright for a completed movie usually resides with the company that produced the film.
Term of copyright is for the life of the creator plus 70 years.
This is called a copyright assignment or transfer of copyright ownership.
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No, there is no copyright on anything that old. In addition, the mere ownership of a copy of something (including the original art "copy") has no bearing upon the ownership of the copyright. Copyright ownership is derived exclusively from authorship. This raises interesting questions when a painter doesn't own the paints and canvas upon which he paints, and was commissioned to create a new work to the specifications of a patron.
Joint authors of a work are joint owners of the copyright. Also, an author or other owner of a copyright can transfer copyright ownership to any number of other joint owners. Similarly, multiple heirs of an estate may inherit joint or common ownership of the copyrights owned by the decedent.
A work of sufficient creativity is automatically protected by copyright as soon as it's fixed in a tangible medium.
The type of ownership is Primark is a Public Company.
Barclays has a public limited type of ownership.
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