{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/duration-of-copyright-and-rights-in-performances-regulations-1995/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/duration-of-copyright-and-rights-in-performances-regulations-1995/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3297",
  "legislation_title": "The Duration of Copyright and Rights in Performances Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/duration-of-copyright-and-rights-in-performances-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Duration of copyright: application of new provisions",
  "text": "The new provisions relating to duration of copyright apply—\n(a) to copyright works made after commencement;\n(b) to existing works which first qualify for copyright protection after commencement;\n(c) to existing copyright works, subject to Regulation 15 (general saving for any longer period applicable under 1988 provisions); ...\n(d) to existing works in which copyright expired before 31st December 1995 but which were on 1st July 1995 protected in an EEA state under legislation relating to copyright or related rights ; and\n(e) to existing works which qualify for copyright protection as a result of the disapplication of paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 1 to the 1988 Act by sub-paragraph (1A) of paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the 1988 Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 16(c) omitted (6.4.2017) by virtue of The Copyright (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1210), regs. 1, 3(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(d) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Intellectual Property (Copyright and Related Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/605), regs. 1(2), 26(2) (with reg. 38) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1050, regs. 1(2), 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 16(d) substituted (6.4.2017) by The Copyright (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1210), regs. 1, 3(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 16(e) inserted (6.4.2017) by The Copyright (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1210), regs. 1, 3(2)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/3297/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:55:11.580928+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."
}