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 [...]
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 [...]
Jimmy Choo was born in Malaysia to a family of shoemakers. He made his first shoe when he was 11 years old. He graduated from Cordwainers Technical College, England in 1983. In 1996, he co-founded Jimmy Choo Ltd / J. Choo Limited with British Vogue magazine accessories editor Tamara Mellon. Jimmy Choo Ltd is a [...]
Copyright is different from other forms of intellectual property because a COPYRIGHT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE REGISTERED in South Africa & UK. In South Africa or the UK, once the work is created in a material form the creator / author / writer / photographer is instantly protected by copyright and may use the [...]
Copyright protects original musical works. It allows an original work to be considered a property that is owned by someone. No official form of copyright registration is necessary in South Africa and the UK. All original music is protected by copyright from the time it is recorded / written down in some format. All you [...]
Copyright protects all photographs. The moment a photo is taken and saved onto film or memory disk, the person who took the photo immediately has full copyright ownership over that photo. No official form of copyright registration is necessary in South Africa and the UK. All photographs are protected by copyright from the time it [...]
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