Copyright Tribunal Website

This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the Copyright Tribunal website.

[Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive using the links listed below (for a general explanation of these parallel links, please see the Arrangement field)]:

Copyright Tribunal (www.patent.gov.uk)

Copyright Tribunal (www.ipo.gov.uk)

Copyright Tribunal (www.gov.uk/government/organisations/copyright-tribunal)

Please see information at Divisional level.

This series contains more than one link to the ‘snapshots’ of this website. For some websites, the URL may change periodically. Despite this change to the URL these websites are part of the same record series as they represent the department or organisation’s presence on the web at the time. Occasionally, more than one domain URL to the same website may run in parallel creating an overlap.

• Copyright Tribunal, 1989-1989
• Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 2016-2016
• Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, 2009-2016
• Department of Trade and Industry, 1983-2007
• Patent Office, 1923-1923

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Official publications

The Copyright Tribunal was established in 1989, under the terms of the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988. Its main function is to decide, where the parties cannot agree between themselves, the terms and conditions of licences offered by or licensing schemes operated by collective licensing bodies in the copyright and related rights area.

The Tribunal consists of a Chairman and two deputy Chairmen who are appointed by the Lord Chancellor after consultation with the Scottish Minister, and not less than two, but no more than eight ordinary members appointed by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. The Tribunal is administered by a Secretary, who is a civil servant working in the Intellectual Property Office (the operating name of The Patent Office since April 2007).