Wednesday, February 07, 2007!
she wrote; Intellectual Property Law
Okay, i'm like such a hardworking girl, i actually read through Ravi Chandran's Introduction to Business Law in Singapore i borrowed. I came across something which is somewhat interesting.
Copyright materials exist in 2 broad categories. Mainly "works" and "subject matter other than works". The term "works" refers to original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works. Originality, however does NOT refer to novelty or something inventive like "lingos" or as someone said, format of a blog entry.
Work must not be copied and that it must be a result of one's own skill, labour or judgement.
Cases held to qualify as a literary work, the contents must be able to provide information or pleasure or instruction to reader. Thus, if the work is very short such as usually would be the case with a name or title or slogan, it may be DIFFICULT to consider it as a literary work.
Coming up with your own quotes or lingos that one is not aware of someone else's ridiculous idea which appeared first on her blog is not likely that there would be an infringement.
DEFENCES
FAIR DEALING FOR PURPOSE OF CRITICISM, REVIEW OR REPORTING OF CURRENT EVENTS:
Fair dealing for the purpose of reporting current events in a newspaper, magazine, periodical or by means of broadcasting, cable programmes or films is allowed.
