Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property

1. Copyright

   • Improvements to be made
     • Press Release December 2012
       • Business Secretary Vince Cable
         • "Making the intellectual property framework fit for the 21st Century is not only common sense but good business sense"
       • Title: Consumers given more copyright freedom
       • Changes to create greater freedom of use include to allow copying of works for individuals own personal use, parody and for the purposes of quotation
         • Gov will also introduce a new, non statutory system for clarifying areas where there is confusion or misunderstanding
           • IOP will issue copyright notices that clarify the law
       • In response to the Hargreaves Review of IP and Growth published May 2011
   • The current UK law on copyright
     • Copyright, Patents and Designs Act 1988
   • First introduced in the Statute of Anne 1709
   • by: PAOLA ANDREA CABRERA
     • 212032_98

2. umbrella term to cover many times, including four main types designs, patents for inventions, trademarks for identification and copyright for literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works

3. Rationale: to reward labour (Locke), to encourage personal expression of the will (Hegel), Utilatarism - greatest good for greatest number (Bentham), Economic Efficiency (Landes and Posner)

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