tailieunhanh - Ebook Intellectual Property Law: Part 2

Ebook Intellectual Property Law: Part 2 presented the following basic content protection of databases and computer programs, industrial designs, protection of industrial designs, intellectual property licences, confidential information, anatomy of a licence agreement, rights of seizure and delivery up. | CHAPTER 5 COPYRIGHT 1 THE COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS ACT 2000 Rosaleen Byrne Introduction and overview The purpose of this chapter is to provide an introduction to and an overview of the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 the 2000 Act . This will be done by setting the Act in context in European and international law developments and by outlining the extent to which those developments have shaped the Act. In addition this chapter aims to highlight in what respects the 2000 Act introduces new concepts into Irish law which depart from the law relating to copyright as set out in the Copyright Act 1963. Further this chapter will address some of the basic building blocks of copyright law namely the concepts of authorship ownership the nature and scope of copyright and the duration of copyright as it applies to various different works. The purpose of this latter part of the chapter is to provide a basis for more detailed chapters on specific aspects of copyright law and in particular Chapter 6 on infringement of copyright and enforcement of rights. Setting the scene Prior to the Act becoming effective on 1 January 2001 the law in Ireland relating to copyright was set out in the Copyright Act 1963 complemented by Irish case law relating to the application of the 1963 Act. Only four significant amendments to the 1963 Act were made prior to the adoption of the 2000 Act. These were as follows a a statutory instrument SI 1995 158 implementing the Term Directive Directive 93 98 EEC the most important effect of this was to enhance the period of protection of copyright from the life of the author plus 50 years to the life of the author plus 70 years b the introduction by way of statutory instrument SI 1993 26 of the Software Directive Directive 91 250 EEC providing copyright protection to computer programs as literary works in whatever form the program exists including source code and object code c the provision of higher fines and terms of imprisonment in .