INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Intellectual Property Rights

Introduction

Copyright Law is a set of legal rules governing the use of works of literature, science and art.

Copyright historically has emerged as a specific means of legal protection of the interests of publishers and booksellers. The main socio-economic purpose of copyright was to establish a monopoly on the use of the product, acting as a commodity, and to consolidate the conditions for the transition of this monopoly on the author's employer - the publisher, impresario, producer, etc.

Among the multilateral international conventions that had the greatest impact on the domestic law of those countries should allocate the Artistic Works and Literacy Protection of 1886's Berne Convention, which was subsequently revised several times and belongs to the prominent role of the World (Geneva) convention copyright 1952.

The most recent edition of both Conventions were adopted in Paris in 1971 in France the basic copyright law is the law of literary and artistic property on March 11, 1957 (with subsequent amendments, in particular, in 1985), which replaces the law of the epoch of the bourgeois revolution, in effect and a half centuries.

In Germany, the main copyright laws are the Law on Copyright and Related Rights of 9 September 1965, as amended, the most significant of which were made in 1972-1974, and adopted simultaneously with the law on the disposal of the copyright (the law of copyright societies) Act of publishing rights in 1901, acting up to date with minor changes made in 1965, regulates the publishing contract.

Copyright treaties also governed by general contract law contained in the German Research, the Swiss federal law on copyright in fictional and creative workings of 7 December 1922, as altered in 1955 in Switzerland. In England American law, along with judicial precedent a crucial role in the regulation of copyright has also played against the legislation.

England is home to the first in the history of copyright law, known as the Statute of Queen Anne (1710). This law established a number of fundamental principles for the protection of exclusive rights to works, which were subsequently accepted by the legislation of other bourgeois countries. (Ithiel 2003)

Discussion

PART A

The essence of copyright and related rights in the network is the same as violations of its borders: assault committed in respect of moral rights and the rights to use the protected sites. However, such violations have certain characteristics, expressed, in particular, the difficulty in controlling the use of placing objects in particular restraint violations committed. There are no material objects that could recognize and seize counterfeit. Determining exactly who are an infringer and the extent to which the illicit use is associated with considerable difficulties. (Jonathan, 2007)

Using one or another search engine on the Internet you can find books, audio and video recordings and other objects of copyright or related rights. Among them are a large number of objects allocated without the owner's consent, in violation of their legitimate interests. Online stores offer to buy illicit recording of music and films much more ...