ABSTRACT
The periods of copyright under the 1963 Act have been amended by Council Directive 93/98/EEC of 29 October 1993, harmonising the law of protection of copyright and certain related rights which was brought into Irish law by the European Communities (Term of Protection of Copyright) Regulations 1995.88
The effect of the 1995 Regulations has been that many works which have been outside the term of copyright have been brought back into copyright, and so an advertiser or advertising agency should check whether a work is in the public domain or whether it has been brought back into copyright.
