At the moment all around the world there is ani-piracy 'war' that took place after US Piracy Officials took down site: megaupload.com and megavideo.com, famous for sharing films, videos, photos and files that user could share on social media: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. In return the best group of hackers that defend user rights: Anonymous, took down Department of Justice. This is all thanks to SOPA and PIPA.
What is SOPA and PIPA?
SOPA stands for 'Stop Online Piracy Act' and 'PIPA for Protect IP Act', both of these acts happened because of online piracy infringement, government was unable to stop copyright infringements by suing individual users so US decided to go beyond and create an act that internet providers and search engines would take particular responsibility for their users. So your current internet provider at the moment might have preview of the things you search and do on the internet.
Personally I think this is the answer from the government to the artists and celebrities and people that are currently making millions on their work. From one perspective it is wrong, but even government will not be able to stop people from downloading songs, movies, software, etc.. They would of have to case almost 90% of human population or cut the internet.
Thursday, 29 March 2012
Design Right
The term "Design Right" refers to the specific legal protection available to unregistered designs in the UK.
There are specific differences between Design Right and Registered Designs.
Registered Designs give you exclusive rights in a design, in the UK, for up to 25 years. You can stop people making, offering, putting on the market, importing, exporting, using or stocking for those purposes, a product to which your design is applied. You can protect two-dimensional designs or surface patterns as well as shape and configuration with a Registered Design.
By comparison, Design Right gives you automatic protection for the internal or external shape or configuration of an original design, i.e. its three-dimensional shape. Design Right allows you to stop anyone from copying the shape or configuration of the article, but does not give you protection for any of the 2-dimensional aspects, for example surface patterns. Protection is limited to the United Kingdom (UK), and lasts either 10 years after the first marketing of articles that use the design, or 15 years after creation of the design - whichever is earlier. For the last 5 years of that period the design is subject to a Licence of Right. This means that anyone is entitled to a licence to make and sell products copying the design.
If you are the owner of a design right subsisting in a design, you have the exclusive right to reproduce the design for commercial reasons by making articles to the design or by making a design document recording the design for the purpose of enabling articles to be made. If anyone else carries out these activities without your permission, they may infringe the design right.
However, it is more difficult to prove infringement of an unregistered Design Right as you must be able to prove it was copied, or that the potential for copying existed.
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/design/d-about/d-designright.htm
There are specific differences between Design Right and Registered Designs.
Registered Designs give you exclusive rights in a design, in the UK, for up to 25 years. You can stop people making, offering, putting on the market, importing, exporting, using or stocking for those purposes, a product to which your design is applied. You can protect two-dimensional designs or surface patterns as well as shape and configuration with a Registered Design.
By comparison, Design Right gives you automatic protection for the internal or external shape or configuration of an original design, i.e. its three-dimensional shape. Design Right allows you to stop anyone from copying the shape or configuration of the article, but does not give you protection for any of the 2-dimensional aspects, for example surface patterns. Protection is limited to the United Kingdom (UK), and lasts either 10 years after the first marketing of articles that use the design, or 15 years after creation of the design - whichever is earlier. For the last 5 years of that period the design is subject to a Licence of Right. This means that anyone is entitled to a licence to make and sell products copying the design.
If you are the owner of a design right subsisting in a design, you have the exclusive right to reproduce the design for commercial reasons by making articles to the design or by making a design document recording the design for the purpose of enabling articles to be made. If anyone else carries out these activities without your permission, they may infringe the design right.
However, it is more difficult to prove infringement of an unregistered Design Right as you must be able to prove it was copied, or that the potential for copying existed.
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/design/d-about/d-designright.htm
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