ReDigi.com is a website where you can buy pre-owned music from other users or sell your own pre-owned music straight from the users’ Cloud space. The system is set up in a way that allows users to buy and sell pre-owned digital music direct from one user to another, then it scans and deletes all [...]
Why should your business plan for 2013 include intellectual property? Creations of the mind are the driving force of a successful business and therefore, safeguarding such intellectual property from unauthorized use by competitors is becoming increasingly critical for retaining a competitive advantage. The registration of intellectual property such as patents, trade marks and designs provides [...]
Have you recently seen copyright notices on some of your friends’ Facebook updates? They claim to prevent Facebook from owning or commercially exploiting their photos, videos and other content. The copyright notice implies that Facebook has recently changed the copyright provisions of its user agreement. It then asserts that user’s copyright over his Facebook posts. [...]
Michael Jackson‘s estate filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Howard Mann in 2011 for establishing an unauthorized website that revealed unreleased Michael Jackson songs and photographs. The lawyers claimed that all the assets are owned by the Michael Jackson estate for the benefit of his children and mother. The Federal Court judge ruled that Howard Mann cannot [...]
In South Africa there is no official form of copyright registration. All original work is protected by copyright from the moment it is set in physical format. So how do you protect your copyright? You need to prove that you are the creator of the work and you need manage and monitor the distribution of [...]
Namibia is a member of ARIPO which means that all patents, designs or trade marks may be registered with the official intellectual property office of Namibia or with ARIPO. ARIPO requires the applicant to choose the specific member states where protection is required. ARIPO member states include Botswana, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, [...]
The Poetry Parnassus which is also known as the Poetry Olympics takes place from 26 June to the 1st of July 2012 at the Southbank Centre in London. The Poetry Parnassus is the largest gathering of poets and the largest poetry festival in the UK. Poets and spoken-word artists from all the competing Olympic nations [...]
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