Intellectual Property Law

Intellectual Property Law

• Part of Intellectual Property Law
• Governs the realm of inventions ( Patent Law) and brands or names ( Trade Mark Law), Trade Secrets ( Commercial Law) and Copyright

The Canadian Copyright Act

• “protection”
• For the life of the author plus 50 years
• Where the creator has the sole right to perform the creative act, grant permission or a “license” to reproduce it, or copy it.
• What is not copyrightable:
• Facts– but the compilation of them ( i.e how they are interpreted, is)
• Ideas- unless they are manifest in a drawing, paper, or written form ( see Vivian and Maurin, page 365)
• Copyright: important in book publishing, sound tracks to films, films, music
• All TV and radio based on copyright payment to the performers they use
• Increasingly important in international trade, all forms of academic expression