Letter of claim—copyright infringement

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Letter of claim—copyright infringement

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Letter of claim

[Alleged infringer’s name and address]

[Date]

Dear [insert organisation name]

Copyright infringement: [Name and description of copyright works]

We are writing on behalf of [name of client] of [address]. We are writing to you about your activities and actions, which amount to an infringement of our client’s copyright.

[Name of client]

[Name of client] operates in [describe: the industry of operation, what the copyright owner does; who in the company produces the copyright works, if relevant how they are employed and what the copyright work is. Define or give the name of the copyright work]. [Insert name of client] is the [owner OR assignee OR exclusive licensee] of copyright in[Name and description of copyright works] (the Work[s]), a copy of which is [enclosed for your attention OR available for inspection on request at the our offices]. [In accordance with section 11(2) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988), our client owns the copyright subsisting in the copyright work because it is the employer of the person who produced the copyright work.]

The Work(s)

Our

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Exclusive licensee definition
What does Exclusive licensee mean?

An exclusive licence is a licence in writing signed by or on behalf of the copyright owner authorising the licensee to the exclusion of all other persons, including the person granting the licence, to exercise a right which would otherwise be exercisable exclusively by the copyright owner.

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