Basically, copyright is a package of exclusive economic rights to do certain things.
Copyright material can be copied, published, communicated (for example, broadcast, made available online) and performed publicly.
Non-economic rights are also held by copyright creators. These are called moral rights. There are three types of authorship rights: integrity, attribution, and protection.
Copyrights in a work must be distinguished from ownership of the article in which they are contained. Although the physical copy of a book is owned by its purchaser, its text may be owned by the writer.
It is also not permitted for the buyer of an original painting to make copies without the permission of the owner of the copyright. The reproduction right resides with the copyright owner, who is generally the artist.
A work is protected by copyright when it is created. Registration, however, is often preferred for enforcement. Copyright certificates contain the date of creation and the creator of the document. To register a copyright, these details need to be filed with a statutory authority, such as the Registrar of Copyrights.
The plaintiff, in this case, is Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha and they seek to prevent the defendant, a spare parts supplier by the name M/S Prius Auto Industries Limited, from the usage of the trademarks- “Toyota”, “Innova”, and “Prius”. According to the finding of the court, two of the three trademarks mentioned, namely Toyota and […]
Intellectual property rights create a situation in which the inventor or the creator enjoys full ownership and rights to commercial exploitation of his creation while everyone else is excluded. The justification is that such a creation, if it has material value, must benefit the creator while preventing others who would otherwise commercially exploit the concept […]
WIPO defines copyright as the right of creators to ownership of their creations and to make use for commercial or other purposes. Copyright today covers literary creations, printed material, computer programs, data, audiovisual media, dance, paintings and drawings, photographs, sculpture, architecture, ad material, technical drawings and others that are the outcome of intellectual effort. From […]