Copyright In South AfricaBy Policarpo Matiquite

Introduction South Africa is country surrounded by land at the top

of two oceans, Indian and Atlantic; is a nation over of 47 million people is one of southern countries in Africa. Is more developed than the rest of countries in the region.

The domain of copyright in South Africa is holed by government or state.

There are some companies to intermediate the copyright process and intellectual propriety in the country .

In academic environment there is no most situation of piracy; but there is copyright infringement as described below

Introduction 1 It is important to study copyright and piracy in South

Africa and other countries, because gives an overview of how intellectual property and how copyright works, and what is related with.

This presentation is organized into three parts; 1. will address the reality in communication in South

Africa, 2. will discuss the different factors and elements related

to Copyright 3. will address some remarks and conclusion of copyright

and how it works in South Africa. Because of accessibility of sources and to be more accurate, will be used literature work in academic field to clarify the use of copyright.

Concepts Copyright Copyright protect a physical expression of any

idea. Copyright is an exclusive right for an author or

owner of idea, during certain period to adapt, publish, and distribute such work.

It was created to protect intellectual standard economic rights of a creator and publisher of all original idea.

This idea can be represented as literature, artistic mode, music, audiovisual or other forma. (WIPO 2005)

Concept 1 Copyrigth Can be defined also as legal term given for a

creator of a literary and artistic original work. Copyright cover all kind of works; like: Novels,

poems, newspaper article, choreography, paintings, draws, sculpture, computer programs, (IIPA 2002)

Copyright is a kind of license obtained by publishing a specific work in own property, and recognized by legislation used in a certain country or other administrative geographic legal organization, ( IIPA 2002)

Concept 2Authorship Joint authorship has been a debated issue.

When more than one researcher decides to publish in a journal, how should the order of authorship should be decided on?

One way is to make the owner of the main idea of an article be the first author,

the other contributors will be addressed as co-authors according to the relevance and their contribution

Concepts 3

Piracy Piracy is used to describe the

deliberated infringement of copyright in commercial scale.

Piracy is an unauthorized duplication of an original work for commercial gain without consent of legal or right owner.

It is a theft of intellectual propriety (IIPA 2002).

Concepts 4Plagiarism Plagiarism is an error on writing issue

witout referencing the source. That means that taking ideas presented

by others, or rewriting research belonging to others you are doing plagiarism.

Plagiarism is unauthorized collaboration between authors where on side of the author are taking by unethical way, ideas from others (Driman and Gallant 2008)

International view of Copyright Copyright has a purpose of protections of literary

and artistic works. Copyright protection means right of author to

authorize reproduction and translation of certain work from the time is created in documented form.

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and (IIPA ) International Intellectual Property, are international organizations to administrate copyright issues in the world.

By the way there is no international copyright each country or most of the countries have agreed to create basic condition to protect copyright.

Copyright in S.AThe South Africa act 98/ 1978 recognize the following material as copyright protection in south Africa:

literature works( novel, poems, text books, letters, reports, lectures, speeches),

music works, artistic works (paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs),

cinematographic works, Broadcasts, program caring signals, published edition books, computers programs. According to this act the copyright have duration of 50

years.

Conclusions Copyright infringement occurs most if of the time

in a form Piracy, discography copying, program steel, etc.

In some cases in academic field there is situation of plagiarism and dishonest authorship which somehow is an infringement of Copyright and intellectual property and freedom.

The changes in communication create by ICT’s arrival are also new tool of copyright infringement, by copying and past and downloading some material without referencing that this belongs to different creation or production.

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