Did you know that if your employment contract with a programmer doesn’t state otherwise, all rights to the created product will belong to him?
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Copyright Protection
Our company is engaged in copyright protection in the international arena. We use comprehensive solutions to ensure the interests of our clients. The range of services of our company allows us to apply the most modern schemes with the transfer of rights to foreign companies. All legal actions taken are a consequence of the peculiarity of the very concept of copyright:
Copyright – an inalienable right of a person to the product of his creative activity that does not require any registration. Measures to protect such a right are laborious work, which, nevertheless, must be carried out. Since, if it is not possible to prove authorship, then the protection of copyright in court becomes practically an unsolvable task. This applies mainly to products created using a computer, that is, which are essentially virtual objects, expert assessment of the authorship of which is generally impossible in principle.
However, the “virtuality” of a work in no way diminishes the rights of the author. Any result of creative or scientific work gives its creator the exclusive right to use the created product, distribute it, receive income from sales and profit in any legal way. Therefore, the author should take the issue of protecting his property interests very seriously, since, in case of success, encroachments on these interests will not be long in coming.
Copyright Infringement
The interests of authors in the age of the boundlessness and permissiveness of the Internet are being violated and violated in huge volumes, literally every second. Copyright infringement can be classified as follows:
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Plagiarism, when non-property rights are violated, that is, the unique idea itself, text, development, etc. are stolen. In other words, authorship is directly assigned;
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Counterfeiting or piracy – in this case we are talking about the property right to remuneration, royalties, income received from the use of a particular creative work.
Copyright protection is a rather complex subject. For example, an author cannot renounce “authorship”, he cannot transfer it to any other person or company, the author can only allow in the form of an agreement to receive income in various ways using the object of the right. That is why the term “Copyright Agreement” should be avoided – the right to be an author cannot be transferred.
Objects of copyright
Objects of law are objects and benefits (both material and intangible) belonging to subjects of law, that is, persons who are carriers of such rights.
Objects of copyright:
– works of literature, which also include dramatic and stage works;
– everything related to the fine arts;
– musical and audiovisual works (movies, etc.)
– sculptural, pictorial and other works that belong to the fine arts;
– photographs and works similar to them;
– maps, sketches and plans;
Separately, it should be noted computer programs, which have been included in this list of copyright objects relatively recently. Software, operating systems, computer developments – all this also applies to objects of copyright.
Software Copyright Protection
As already mentioned, copyright registration is an optional procedure. However, in the case of virtual objects, it is necessary, since in this case it is impossible to prove authorship by examination, and this will be critical in the event of a lawsuit. Therefore, when it comes to copyright protection on the Internet, it is much more appropriate to use various schemes with the transfer of rights. This is the best way to proceed if you need to protect the copyright for the program.
Software copyright protection on a global scale, as a rule, involves a scheme with the registration of an offshore company specifically for owning these rights. Today, thanks to our company, a full cycle of services for copyright protection on the Internet has become possible to obtain in one place and at affordable prices.
The issue of copyright protection requires a balanced and competent approach. Our specialists can give you any information about the most effective ways to protect your interests.
