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 [...]
Related rights as a term is used to describe rights in copyright not connected to the real author of the work. The related rights can for instance, have bearing on the rights of broadcasters and performers. Related rights also refer to the protection of the filmmaker and database creator’s rights. As such the rights are [...]
In many instances copyright infringement takes place simply because of ignorance and misconceptions. A few guidelines are provided below to help you avoid copyright infringement. Work On The Internet Is Copyright Protected Make no mistake most works on the Internet are copyright protected. Only if a work falls within public domain, that is the copyright [...]
Never think that if a book is in a library and you use the library copier to copy part of the book, that you have not committed copyright infringement. A few guidelines regarding copying are shared by South Africa copyright attorneys to help you avoid copyright infringement. Libraries and archives can only duplicate published work [...]
How Gauteng copyright attorneys can assist you… A photo just as any other tangible form of art or literary work protected under Copyright Law in South Africa automatically enjoys copyright protection the moment the picture is taken and available in a tangible form. The Smit & Van Wyk copyright attorneys can assist freelance photographers in [...]
How a copyright attorney can help when web copyright infringement takes place It may have happened to you already. All of the sudden you experience a website ranking drop at Google and the visitor numbers start to dwindle. You do a bit of research and find out that many of your website pages have been [...]
It seems that daily we discover new ways of ‘publishing’ ourselves. Long gone are then days when published books and the stage were the only places to express ideas and stories. But with such an expansion of media opportunities and greater accessibility, copyrights are certainly also more exposed to infringement, even if it is unintentional. [...]
Copyright attorneys are often asked to represent clients when there is a dispute as to who is the author of a certain work and thus holds the copyright. The South African legislation considers the following as authors: Literary, musical or artistic works – the person who first makes or creates the work Photographs – the [...]
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