INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY



Giving arguments
•Group A – you strongly oppose to any limitations, copying and downloading should be allowed fully.
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•Group B – Copying and downloading at home is just as bad as stealing from a store.
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•Group C – some copying should be allowed but it has to be regulated. How?

Keeping pace with technology
•KEY:
1)D
2)F
3)A
4)B
5)G
6)E
7)C

Keeping pace with technology
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•fair dealing (in IP)

Keeping pace with technology
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•fair dealing (in IP) – a person is allowed to make a photocopy of someone else’s work if it is
done for private study and no more than a substantial part of the book or article is copied

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Intellectual property traditionally encompasses two wider groups:
•1) industrial property rights, i.e.
•a)  INVENTIONS or PATENTS
•b) UTILITY MODELS,
• Am. En.: UTILITY PATENTS
• in Czech: užitné vzory
•c) (industrial) DESIGNS
• Am. En.: DESIGN PATENTS
•   in Czech: (průmyslové) vzory
• d) TRADE MARKS, SERVICE MARKS
• e) GEOGRAPHICAL  INDICATIONS
• in Czech: zeměpisná označení
• f) PLANT  BREEDER’S  RIGHTS,
• Am. En.: PLANT  PATENTS
• in Czech: šlechtitelská práva/práva šlechtitele nových odrůd rostlin,
• g) CIRCUIT  LAYOUTS  RIGHTS
• in Czech: práva z topografie polovodičových výrobků

Intellectual property traditionally encompasses two wider groups:
•2) copyright and its neighbouring and related rights, i.e. rights to
•   a) PERFORMING artists
•   b) PRODUCERS of sound recordings
•   c) BROADCASTING organizations