{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/section-215",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/section-215.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/215",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "215",
  "heading": "Ownership of design right.",
  "text": "(1) The designer is the first owner of any design right in a design which is not created ... in the course of employment.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Where ... a design is created by an employee in the course of his employment, his employer is the first owner of any design right in the design.\n(4) If a design qualifies for design right protection by virtue of section 220 (qualification by reference to first marketing of articles made to the design), the above rules do not apply and the person by whom the articles in question are marketed is the first owner of the design right.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 215(1) omitted (1.10.2014) by virtue of Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18), ss. 2(1)(a), 24(1) (with s. 2(3)); S.I. 2014/2330, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 215(2) omitted (1.10.2014) by virtue of Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18), ss. 2(1)(b), 24(1) (with s. 2(3)); S.I. 2014/2330, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 215(3) omitted (1.10.2014) by virtue of Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18), ss. 2(1)(c), 24(1) (with s. 2(3)); S.I. 2014/2330, art. 3, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/215",
    "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."
}