Intellectual property rights protect the interests of creators by giving them property rights over their creations :
• literary, artistic and scientific works;
• performances of performing artists, phonograms, and broadcasts;
• inventions in all fields of human endeavor;
• scientific discoveries;
• industrial designs;
• trademarks, service marks, and commercial names and designations;
• protection against unfair competition; and
• “all other rights resulting from intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific, literary or artistic fields.”
Industrial Property and Copyright
Intellectual property is usually divided into two branches, namely industrial property, which broadly speaking protects inventions, and copyright, which protects literary and artistic works.
Industrial property takes a range of forms. These include patents to protect inventions, and industrial designs, which are aesthetic creations determining the appearance of industrial products.
Industrial property also covers trademarks, service marks, layout-designs of integrated circuits, commercial names and designations, as well as geographical indications, and protection against unfair competition.
Copyright relates to artistic creations, such as books, music, paintings and sculptures, films and technology-based works such as computer programs and electronic databases.
Works Protected by Copyright
• books, pamphlets and other writings;
• lectures, addresses, sermons;
• dramatic or dramatico-musical works;
• choreographic works and entertainments in dumb show;
• musical compositions with or without words;
• cinematographic works to which are assimilated works expressed by a process analogous to cinematography;
• works of drawing, painting, architecture, sculpture, engraving and lithography;
• photographic works, to which are assimilated works expressed by a process analogous to photography;
• works of applied art; illustrations, maps, plans, sketches and three-dimensional works relative to geography, topography, architecture or science;
• “translations, adaptations, arrangements of music and other alterations of a literary or artistic work, which are to be protected as original works without prejudice to the copyright in the original work..
• collections of literary or artistic works such as encyclopaedias and anthologies which, by reason of the selection and arrangement of their contents, constitute intellectual creations, are to be protected as such, without prejudice to the copyright in each of the works forming part of such collections.”
• literary, artistic and scientific works;
• performances of performing artists, phonograms, and broadcasts;
• inventions in all fields of human endeavor;
• scientific discoveries;
• industrial designs;
• trademarks, service marks, and commercial names and designations;
• protection against unfair competition; and
• “all other rights resulting from intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific, literary or artistic fields.”
Industrial Property and Copyright
Intellectual property is usually divided into two branches, namely industrial property, which broadly speaking protects inventions, and copyright, which protects literary and artistic works.
Industrial property takes a range of forms. These include patents to protect inventions, and industrial designs, which are aesthetic creations determining the appearance of industrial products.
Industrial property also covers trademarks, service marks, layout-designs of integrated circuits, commercial names and designations, as well as geographical indications, and protection against unfair competition.
Copyright relates to artistic creations, such as books, music, paintings and sculptures, films and technology-based works such as computer programs and electronic databases.
Works Protected by Copyright
• books, pamphlets and other writings;
• lectures, addresses, sermons;
• dramatic or dramatico-musical works;
• choreographic works and entertainments in dumb show;
• musical compositions with or without words;
• cinematographic works to which are assimilated works expressed by a process analogous to cinematography;
• works of drawing, painting, architecture, sculpture, engraving and lithography;
• photographic works, to which are assimilated works expressed by a process analogous to photography;
• works of applied art; illustrations, maps, plans, sketches and three-dimensional works relative to geography, topography, architecture or science;
• “translations, adaptations, arrangements of music and other alterations of a literary or artistic work, which are to be protected as original works without prejudice to the copyright in the original work..
• collections of literary or artistic works such as encyclopaedias and anthologies which, by reason of the selection and arrangement of their contents, constitute intellectual creations, are to be protected as such, without prejudice to the copyright in each of the works forming part of such collections.”
