A design registration is limited only to the appearance of the article and does not offer any protection for its method of construction or operation. Although the same features of shape of say a dolphin may be applied to an item of jewellery and a drinks container, these are different articles which require separate registrations. Application for Registration An application to register a design must include representations showing all features of the design. The representations may be line drawings or quality photographs and apart from plan and elevational views, should also show perspective views. It is the form of expression, which is protected, and not the actual ideas.
Protection is only in respect of substantial or complete copying.
Protection is afforded to literary, dramatic and musical works. The copyright owner has exclusive rights, including the reproduction, publication, performance, broadcast, transmission or adoption of the work. Copyright gives protection to those works for a limited time only. In the case of published works, copyright continues to subsist for 50 years after the death of the author. In the case of unpublished works, copyright subsists for 50 years after the date of the first publication of the work.