{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/48",
  "legislation_title": "Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Copyright and copyright works.",
  "text": "(1) Copyright is a property right which subsists in accordance with this Part in the following descriptions of work—\n(a) original literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works,\n(b) sound recordings, films or broadcasts, and\n(c) the typographical arrangement of published editions.\n(2) In this Part “copyright work” means a work of any of those descriptions in which copyright subsists.\n(3) 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).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(1)(b) substituted (31.10.2003) by The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2498), reg. 5(2) (with regs. 31-40)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:40.311838+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}