Why copyright is
Imagine the following scenario: You build a cabin, for example, your own design. It is a beautiful Tudor style, the case of thatch, with a small garden and stunning views of rolling green hills with spectacular sunsets in the evening. Now imagine that someone asks about your holiday home unique and very attractive one day and moves as you are. You go home, suddenly find you can not go back to, and claim squatters inside, they have the house they built it, too, and even worse, they started to return rent house for a pretty penny.
To make matters worse, they are now in double cabins, sell your design on the street and make more money. Now imagine that there was no right exists to give you the opportunity to reconnect to your property and no way to stop the usurper, or to make restitution to them for their actions.
Transfer this crude analogy, of course creativity, and therefore there is copyright.
I like the way the Irish Patents Office (5) puts it on their website regarding the nature of copyright:
First, the people who create the works of the mind or to secure investment in their development and dissemination as a matter of human rights the right to a fair return for their creativity and investment.
Second, if the rights of creators and investors a reasonable return would be supported, the community as a whole by the fact that in many cases, these works are not created or developed in the poverty.
Our civilization progresses through creativity and innovation. But for developers to create, they must eat to live, they earn money, receive recognition for their work and inspiration to maintain effort, when push comes to shove. Copyright is to get there and helping innovators get the product of their work. Copyright exists to promote creativity and creative people to live their creativity. Copyright exists, because it is the creative and economic sense to exist for the copyright. If a writer makes money from their work, they can earn money to continue writing. Once an artist deserves money from the licensing and production of images of works of art, they have income, so they invest their time productively in other projects. There is still copyright to promote innovation and prosperity, is for society as a whole and for each of the innovators.
Take copyright away and effectively tie their hands behind their backs creative. Imagine a world culturally, creatively, technically and economically disadvantaged, because the innovators have not had the reward for the power to use their efforts to protect.
In this sense, let us accommodate my analogy to the previous page in the context of this moment, you are not a creative person, right? Imagine every time you create something, someone could come copy, claim as their own and probably make money, and without fear of consequences, because there was no law that their own actions punishable by law. They are very fast or not? What is the point of all the hard work when others could get the credit and reward? Fortunately for us, it’s not how it is in the real world. Let us once again what the Irish Patents Office to read, to ensure that there is a human right to a fair return for their creativity and investment. I repeat, said nicely.
So why copyright exists.
But what exactly is copyright?
copyright, if you look at my crude analogy hut again, they essentially define what copyright is a property right. But a property that does not apply to land or buildings or vehicles, but the products of the human spirit of our intellect. Creative products, such as literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or a film (do not worry, I’m more in detail the work that is considered copyright goes further). And what can you do with the law on intellectual property? Well, some similar claims, but also copyright against various other forms of property, especially as the copyright owner (or owners) to:
* borrow a copy, and distribute their work
License * other (ie grant permission) to use the copyright holder to do work
* adapt their work or other licenses (eg adapting a book into a film)
* Sale of their work creates its intellectual property to others and, above
* The government must stop the illegal violation of these rights by third parties, * ie the copying and use of the authorization of the copyright holder and work withouttheir
receive compensation in the form of compensation or damages where the loss of income due to injury was discovered.
This applies to holders of a copyrighted work, if published, published or otherwise released for consumption. Not only that, while
The moral rights of author
creator and curator of a copyrighted work is copyrighted, the rights of others in relation to their work with the title. Called moral rights, they are:
* The law, as the author (or photographer or artist or composer or director, etc.) are identified and a work environment to stop falsely attributed to them
* The law will not have their work to derogatory treatment (change, reorganization or elimination) of other derogatory treatment to be where the work is altered resulting , distorted and can cause damage to the reputation creator / author
* The right to privacy when it comes to certain photographs and films (for example, a private curator of photographs, the right not to have published or displayed to the public, where the photos of copyrighted works)
Examples of these three points:
If you open the front scroll a few pages of a book, you will see that the moral right of the author, as the author This book identifies are affirmed, they are entitled to do under the law (7). Would it be a book of fiction, and it was adapted into a movie, they also have the right, in the film as the author of the novel source to be identified, unless you immediately. In contrast, Alan Moore, the now legendary disaster in the treatment of adaptations of his graphic novels and how it is, they feel a bad day contradicted his original work, asked him to demand his name the credits of the film, like Watchmen be removed.
If for some reason JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series of books have been credited knowingly and intentionally, my work and not him by someone else, she and I could stop them false attribution. (8)
during the processing of this book, I was third (editor, publisher or printer) had done a hatchet job on all my efforts, I could not let them know how unhappy I was sick with this, but I would have the right to stop them. (9)
Finally, portrait photo of my partner and I have paid a professional photographer to hang on the walls, and wherever we live without our say-so (10).
See how to work the moral rights?
I must now speak, but there are exceptions to moral rights, they can not be invoked when the copyrighted computer programs or computer-generated work (created without human intervention) or to design a font. Also, when the creator / author has not asserted his right as the creator / author, if this right is to be identified, the moral right has been violated. In addition, when the work creator / writer for an employer who does /, the authorship of the work you produce yourself, you will not have this right is not.
5 – Ireland European Patent Office: http://www.patentsoffice.ie. Copyright – a brief history:
http://www.patentsoffice.ie/en/student_copyright.aspx 6 – Copyright – a brief history: http://www.patentsoffice.ie/en / student_copyright.aspx5
7 – The Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988, Chapter IV, moral rights, Articles 77 to 79
0.8 – The Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988, Chapter IV , moral rights, § 84
9 – The Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988, Chapter IV, moral rights, Articles 80 to 81
10 – The Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988 Chapter IV, moral rights, § 85
