I'm Giancarlo Enrico S. Pozon, a Wushu instructor, investor and Barrister... That's right, Barrister; I graduated from law school and took the Bar Exams, now I'm waiting for the results. I created this blog to make Philippine Law easy to understand for the average person. It's all about free legal advice. There are many law blogs. But the problem is that many of them are written for lawyers and law students. They use words that can't be understood by ordinary people.
Many lawyers, judges and law students consider themselves as superior to most human beings because of their knowledge of the law. It bothers me since the law is supposed to serve society. Since the law is meant to serve society as a whole, it is important that is must be understood by everybody.
This does not mean that we should all become lawyers. It means that although law is a highly specialized profession, the first duty of everybody in this profession is to make the law understandable to all; that's why all these articles are free legal advice.
Like I said, this blog is about law -but it's for the ordinary people, not the lawyers. It's for the ordinary folk so they will know what is good and bad for them, and that making them aware of the law will help us all improve society as a whole. This is free legal advice for everybody!
Copyrights apply to creations of the mind that are neither inventions nor trademarks. They apply to books, articles, newspapers, novels, magazines, speeches, works of art, architects' and engineers' drawings, musical compositions, maps, lectures, movies, papers and even advertisements and computer programs. They also apply to adaptations and arrangements of such works. Registration here is not essential, unlike in patents and trademarks, but serves as prima facie evidence.
These are the author's rights in a copyright:
A.) Moral
1.) Have authorship attributed to him.
2.) Make alterations
3.) Object to any distortion, modification or derogatory action related to his copyrighted work.
4.) To protect his name from being used by any work that isn't his or a distorted version of that work.
B.) Economic
1.) Reproduction
2.) Adaptation/derivation
3.) Distribution
4.) Rental
5.) Display
6.) Performance (in case of musical compositions, movie scripts, plays, etc. others may perform them as long as they acknowledge the author of the work.)
7.) Transmission
The lifetime of a copyright covers the author's lifetime as well as fifty (50) years after his death. except in the following instances:
1.) Several authors
Protection continues up to 50 years after the death of the last co-author.
2.) Anonymous works
50 years from the date of first publication, but if the author becomes known, then the 50-year rule will apply.
3.) Applied art
25 years from the date of making.
4.) Audio-visual/photographic works
50 years from the date of publication (or from making if they're not published.)
After the time limit expires, the public may now freely reproduce the work (but acknowledgment of the author must still be paid attention to.)
3 comments:
so how do you get a copyright?
Submit 2 copies to the Supreme Court and the National Library and pay the application fee. But that's not necessary. As long as your work is published, it already has copyright protection.
Great read Rick. That's also true with our blog posts. When it's published we have the rights to defend it. How's the exams? Hope all is well.
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