The legal name given to your ideas is Intellectual Property, and intellectual property is protected by the Law.
Many South African attorneys specialize in copyright, patents, design and trademarks and there are four Acts of Parliament that have specifically been written to protect your ideas. South African Intellectual Property Attorneys are the experts in the larger law firms who are there to advise you on how to go about protecting your ideas such as copy right.
Copyright is just one of the subjects attorneys study in the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law when studying intellectual property. Both types of attorney are bound by a code of ethics that is administered by the Council of the Institute and are members of that institute.
With the exception of films and videos, South African copy right, like that in most other countries, is a right that does not have to be registered by attorneys to offer protection.
Copyright covers works that are creations of the mind, but only once they are made physical. Attorneys will tell you that the idea for a South African novel may not be copy righted, but once the idea is put onto paper with the word “copy right” or ©, preferably with a name and date, it is legally the property of the author, and may only be copied with his/her express permission.
Copy right is a set of exclusive rights governing the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. At its most general, it is literally "the right to copy" an original creation. In most cases, these rights are of limited duration. Attorneys will tell you that in South African law this is fifty years after the death of the author. Copy right covers a wide range of creative, intellectual, or artistic works.
These include poems, theses, plays, and other literary works, films, choreographic works (dances, ballets, etc.), music, sound recordings, paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, software, radio and television broadcasts of live and other performances. In South African Law, copy right is one of the laws covered by the intellectual property attorneys.
In South African Law the holder of a copy right for a particular work enjoys several exclusive rights. Attorneys say he has the right to produce copies or reproductions of the work and to sell those copies (including electronic copies).
He may import and export the work or copies of it. He may adapt or change the original work in any way wants. He may perform or display the work in public. He may dispose of these rights to others by selling them, leasing them or disposing of them in any other way he wishes. The phrase "exclusive right" means that only the copy right holder is free to exercise these rights, and that others are prohibited using the work without his or her consent.
Copyright is often called a "negative right" in that it serves to prohibit people (e.g. readers, viewers, or listeners, and primarily publishers and would be publishers) from doing something, rather than allowing them to do something.
If you have any queries on copy right, you should contact your nearest South African intellectual property attorneyThe legal name given to your ideas is Intellectual Property, and intellectual property is protected by the Law. Many South African attorneys specialize in copy right, patents, design and trademarks and there are four Acts of Parliament that have specifically been written to protect your ideas.
South African Intellectual Property Attorneys are the experts in the larger law firms who are there to advise you on how to go about protecting your ideas such as copy right. Copy right is just one of the subjects attorneys study in the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law when studying intellectual property. Both types of attorney are bound by a code of ethics that is administered by the Council of the Institute and are members of that institute.
With the exception of films and videos, South African copy right, like that in most other countries, is a right that does not have to be registered by attorneys to offer protection. Copyright covers works that are creations of the mind, but only once they are made physical.
Attorneys will tell you that the idea for a South African novel may not be copy righted, but once the idea is put onto paper with the word “copy right” or ©, preferably with a name and date, it is legally the property of the author, and may only be copied with his/her express permission.
Copyright is a set of exclusive rights governing the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. At its most general, it is literally "the right to copy" an original creation. In most cases, these rights are of limited duration. Attorneys will tell you that in South African law this is fifty years after the death of the author.
Copy rights covers a wide range of creative, intellectual, or artistic works. These include poems, theses, plays, and other literary works, films, choreographic works (dances, ballets, etc.), music, sound recordings, paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, software, radio and television broadcasts of live and other performances. In South African Law, copy right is one of the laws covered by the intellectual property attorneys.
In South African Law the holder of a copyright for a particular work enjoys several exclusive rights. Attorneys say he has the right to produce copies or reproductions of the work and to sell those copies (including electronic copies).
He may import and export the work or copies of it. He may adapt or change the original work in any way wants. He may perform or display the work in public. He may dispose of these rights to others by selling them, leasing them or disposing of them in any other way he wishes.
The phrase "exclusive right" means that only the copy right holder is free to exercise these rights, and that others are prohibited using the work without his or her consent. Copyright is often called a "negative right" in that it serves to prohibit people (e.g. readers, viewers, or listeners, and primarily publishers and would be publishers) from doing something, rather than allowing them to do something.
If you have any queries on copy right, you should contact your nearest South African intellectual property attorney
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