BU231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bill Cosby, World Intellectual Property Organization, Copyright Infringement
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Copyright issues- copyright act: copyright infringement, collective societies and tariffs. Trademark issues: infringement- passing off, trademark act, cybersquatting- address or name. Patent issues: novel, new process= technology, infringement of patent. Subject of the photograph does not have any ownership of the photograph: the photographer has full ownership. Took a phot from a nature journal and used it for an article without consent for personal gain, breaking a copyright. The right or ownership that exists in original works of authorship in any medium of expression including literary, musical, drama produce, re-produce, perform publish. Life of the author + 50 years (moral rights: copyright is only one thing a creator gets. They receive a copyright (control of the work"s production and use) as well as moral right (credit for being the author regardless of whether the copyright is still valid): moral right never ends. Copyright gives control of how it is to be used later on.
