Digital Rights Management is a term that is used to describe the practice of using access control methods to limit the usage of digital works and products according to policies as stipulated by the manufacturers and publishers for the specific products. The phrase ‘Digital Rights Management’ doesn’t extend to other copyright protection methods for non-digital [...]
The protection provided under South Africa copyright laws doesn’t extend to ideas. To be eligible for protection under South Africa copyright laws the ideas must be expressed in material form. If someone has a great idea and shares that idea with another person who then goes on to publishing it in a written format, the [...]
In South Africa, like in most Berne Convention countries, copyright subsist in a qualified work, the moment that the work is created in physical form. Therefore, no registration of copyright is necessary for copyright to subsist. Copyright provides exclusivity to the owner thereof to perform certain acts in respect of the works. In South Africa [...]
Copyright lawyers are the lawyers who will assist you if you have any issues whatsoever regarding copyright of any of your works of the mind. Copyright is intellectual property and may be transferred, sold, licensed or lent to another person or entity in much the same way as any other property. However, in order that [...]
A copyright attorney is an attorney who will assist you in any issues that arise from copyright infringements and who can help you to set up agreements or contracts with publishers or others who may wish to use your copyrighted work. If, for example, you own the copyright to a novel and a film company [...]
If you are the owner of a copyright, copyright attorneys can assist you in copyright and publisher agreements and can handle both the setting of contracts and help with high level litigation cases where copyright infringement has taken place. If you have copyright issues that need to be referred to the high courts of the [...]
The most widespread form of Intellectual Property is Copyright. Copyright is the one form of intellectual property that does not have to be registered. Once put into a tangible form such as print or some other media, copyright automatically becomes yours. Generally speaking, any creative work by an individual is eligible for copyright protection. It [...]
A trademark attorney can advise you on both the selection of trademarks and will carry out searches on your behalf to ensure there is no conflict with earlier trademarks. Registration of your trademark offers you several advantages. It establishes your rights to the mark, even before you use it. Registration of your mark will also [...]
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