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They may also highlight specific qualities of a product which are due to human skill or tradition, that can be found in the place of origin. An example of this is Swiss chocolate or Swiss watches. This geographical connection is important to the marketing of a product, since it derives its qualities and its reputation from that place, and therefore it is in the best interest of the product/producer to protect the reliability of this link.
Legal protection limits the false use of geographical indications by unauthorized parties, which would otherwise be detrimental to consumers and legitimate producers - misleading consumers to believe they are buying a genuine product with specific qualities and causing producers to suffer financial damages due to lost business. Geographic Indication is protected in accordance with national law, but a number of treaties administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and agreements made within the framework of the World Trade Organization (WTO) provide international protection.
COPYRIGHT
The term copyright is commonly heard today, especially in the context of piracy and online media (music, videos, movies, etc.), but what exactly is it? Copyright is a legal term describing rights given to creators for their literary and artistic works. It extends only to expressions, and not to ideas, procedures, methods of operation or mathematical concepts.
Works that may be covered include literary works, databases, films, musical compositions, choreography, paintings, sculpture, photos, architecture, ads, maps, and technical drawings. The original creators of the work, and their heirs, have certain basic rights: they hold the exclusive rights to prohibit or authorize the reproduction of the work, its public performance (performance art), its recording (CD, cassette), its broadcasting (radio), or its translation into other languages.
Copyright protection also includes moral rights, which involve the right to claim authorship of a work and the right to oppose changes to it that would harm the creator’s reputation. This legal protection does not depend on an application process, but rather is considered a right essential to human creativity. Under this theory, all created work is considered protected by copyright as soon as it exists, therefore ensuring the safe dissemination of work without unauthorized copying. Despite this, many countries have national copyright offices and national laws that impose country-specific conditions and procedures.
Similarly, Rights Related to Copyright is a newly developed extension of this protection of to performing artists, producers of sound recordings, and broadcasting organizations.
Reference: http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/overview.html
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Its very nice. dhananjaya | Oct 15th, 2005
About copyright on internet: is downloading bad? Vincku | Oct 25th, 2005
Nowaday, it has become extremly "easy" to download for free songs, movies and softwares that was meant to be bought. Peer to peer, Bit torrent, usenet are commonly used by the mass to access for free, from their computers, at home, instead of going to a shop and buy cd's, dvd's or software licenses.
Of course, some will say: its illegal to do that, and you are stealing the authors or creators of these materials copyrighted and its bad, bad, bad! These people are criminals.
Lets put things straight and wipe out some ideas or rumours that the one who loose in this calculation would like to spread.
First of all, it is not illegal to download. Its only illegal to share.
Secondo: Since the tape recorder has been invented,remember those plastic things, with a magnetic ribbon and little wheelies, people have always done that.And nobody was complaining about it. Nowadays, it has become even more expensive to do it: you need a computer, a fast internet connection and more knowledges to be able to do it. This has a cost, so in this process we end up spending more eventually.Ipod and all mp3 players surf on this wave of downloaded files. Do you know the price of a ipod?
Third ideas: Of course, the authors earn less money. Strangely, this is always the already mega rich singers or bands, movie makers or actors who complain about it.This is always the biggest resellers who takes a huge % in the benefits which point aggresivly their finger to this new tendency of downloading.Yes, they loose money. The reality is that this is the end of the golden years for them. Fair enough! Its time for them to find new ideas to sell, to evolve.
Fourth ideas: the more a movie or an album is downloaded, the more they will be known! Its actually a good indice for them, the best one to see if what they did is good or not.
As for music, so many so called "musicians or singers" sell their poor and bad music to us, by brainwashing us over the radio which broadcast in loop their best songs.Its maybe time for them to understand that the golden years for them has gone too. If they want their album to sell, they will have to do like the small bands and go on stage first in order to sell their album! And not the countrary.
Fith idea: I would like to bring up this example. Adobe, the famous software company used Piracy to beat up Jasc with their now famous image editing software.
Years ago, Jasc was the leader with Paintshop. Adobe decided then to render their software photoshop easily crackable. Everybody started to download it and use it. Result of this clever idea: Photoshop has now become a standard in image editing softwares. And Adobe is now strong as never before.
6th idea: What you download will never be as good as what you buy. Whether it is movies, music or even software/games, you wont get by downloading what you get when you buy them.
Music: the mp3 is a compressed file and on loud speaker, you wont get the same sound as the wave file.
It is the same for movies, if the picture will be ok on a computer screen, if you put it on a normal tv, you will notice the difference of quality or even sound.
As for softwares, you wont get the full features of the software. Some shortcuts wont work, you wont be able to patch it to correct the bugs, and if you use them professionaly, you will have to proove at some point that you have bought your "tools".
As for games, you wont be able to play them online, because for that, you will need a license number which is unique for each copy.So clearly, you will see limits.
So all in all, downloading is not so bad. It forces authors to become better, it re establishes a fair balance in this business. And if you really like an singer, you can still buy (when you have the money for it) his cd, dvd, or go to see his performance on stage.
I hope this comment will show you the other side of this phenomena.So please react...
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