Intellectual Property Module 6 Flashcards
What are the different types of intellectual property?
- Trademarks (Logos of brands)
- Patents (Good and services created such as Tesla cars)
- Confidential Information (Secret recipe of coke)
- Copyright (Original & Related works of literacy such as art and etc)
Reasons for Intellectual Property Protection
- Allows the creators to use their work for commercial purposes
- Provides motivation for these creators
- Encourages constant innovation and creation
- Allows users to defend their work from infringement
What are the criteria used for copyright protection.
1) Singaporean or PR
2) Protection Categories
3) Original Work Created By Author
4) Tangible Form
What shall not be covered under copyright
- Work done in public domain
- Intangible Assets
- Methods
- Procedures
- Ideas & Concepts
6) Discoveries
What are things covered by copyright
- Literary, dramatic & musical work (up to 70 years after DEATH)
- Sound Recordings (Up to 70 years after release)
- Cinematographic films (Up to 70 years after end of year of release)
- Artistic works(Up to 70 years after DEATH)
- Cable & TV broadcasts (Up to 50 years since first broadcast)
- Published Editions (25 years after first publish)
What is the concept of overlapping copyright?
Items that incur multiple copyrights such as the secret recipe of coke which is covered by both patent and confidential information
What is the concept behind joint authorship?
Two or more authors created inseparable work or independent part of a whole work.
What are the elements that form a contract?
- Offer (Indication by offeror of willingness to contract)
- Acceptance (Absolute and unconditional acceptance must be communicated to the offeror)
- Consideration (Usually consideration comes in the form of a financial payment)
- Intention to create legal relation (Both parties must have said to have had the intention to create legal relations)
- Capacity (Both parties must have entered into the contract with capacity)
Does the breach of a contract automatically terminate it?
The wronged party cannot call for a breach of contract unless it absolutely strips him away of the entire benefit of the contract. The wronged party can ask for repudiation and claim financial compensation if there is a loss.
What are the two kinds of licenses?
- Exclusive Licenses
- Rights to use/sell product is granted to one person only - Non-exclusive licences
- Rights to use/sell product is granted to multiple parties.
What is the concept of assignment?
Assignment is another type of contract that seeks to transfer ownership of the property to the other party.
What are the six standard creative common licences
- Attribution BY
- Attribution Non Commercial BY NC
- Attribution Share Alike BY SA
- Attribution No Derivative Works BY ND
- Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike BY NC SA
- Attribution Non-commercial No Derivate works
What is the creative common license known as BY?
This is the attribution common license which allows the user to copy, adapt, modify, redistribute and license to others
What is the creative commons labelled as BY - NC?
Attribution Non-Commercial which allows the user to copy, adapt, modify and redistribute the work and license it to others
What is the creative commons license known as BY SA
It is the attributable share alike license which allows the user to copy, adapt, modify, redistribute and license to others on the same terms as the original work
