Information Ownership in the Cloud

2021 ◽  
pp. 145-176
Author(s):  
Chris Reed
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Physical Object ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Confidential Information ◽  
Database Right ◽  
The Law ◽  
Types Of Information

This chapter discusses information ownership in the cloud. The law has struggled with ownership of digital information precisely because it is no longer recorded in permanent form on a physical object which can be owned. The law attempts to solve this problem by creating legal rights in some types of information, in the form of intellectual property rights. However, intellectual property rights are highly limited in scope in order to prevent the monopolisation of information. Thus, disputes over information ownership, and negotiations involving transfer of digital information, can be surprisingly difficult to resolve. The chapter then looks at copyright, database right, and the protection of confidential information. It shows that owning property rights in information, most likely copyright and database right, has little importance in terms of the cloud relationship. Cloud computing does, however, create some risks to confidential information because each player in the cloud is handing over some element of control to other players.

Freedom of Information and Intellectual Property

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Freedom Of Information Act ◽  
Confidential Information ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Database Right ◽  
Future Publication ◽  
Information Regime

Chapter 17 concerns the interplay between freedom of information and intellectual property rights, in particular copyright, database right, and patents. It assesses the threat of infringement posed by the freedom of information regime. It then goes on to consider what exemptions might be invoked to protect them under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, including the exemptions protecting confidential information, ongoing research, commercial interests, and information intended for future publication. A contrast is drawn with the much simpler approach taken in the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR), which contain an exemption specifically applicable to information the disclosure of which would adversely affect intellectual property rights. Reference is made to some relevant decided cases. In conclusion, the chapter looks at the issue from the perspective of EU law.

Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Energy Services in Africa

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Professor Adebambo Adewopo ◽  
Dr Tobias Schonwetter ◽  
Helen Chuma-Okoro
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Energy Access ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Energy Services ◽  
Proper Role ◽  
The Law

This chapter examines the proper role of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in achieving access to modern energy services in Africa as part of a broader objective of a pro-development intellectual property agenda for African countries. It discusses the role of intellectual property rights, particularly patents, in consonance with pertinent development questions in Africa connected with the implementation of intellectual property standards, which do not wholly assume that innovation in Africa is dependent on strong intellectual property systems. The chapter examines how existing intellectual property legal landscapes in Africa enhance or impede access to modern energy, and how the law can be directed towards improved energy access in African countries. While suggesting that IPRs could serve an important role in achieving modern energy access, the chapter calls for circumspection in applying IP laws in order not to inhibit access to useful technologies for achieving access to modern energy services.

Video game in the system of intellectual property: the concept and features of legal protection

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-66
Author(s):  
Anatolii Kodynets ◽  
Arsen Murashko
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Computer Program ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Regulatory Function ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
Audiovisual Work

Keywords: video game, intellectual property law, computer program, software, digitalinformation, electronic information, multimedia work, audiovisual work The article is devoted to thestudy of the legal understanding of video games as an object of intellectual propertyrights. The author concludes that video games constitute digital information, whichgreatly facilitates their development, however, complicates the protection of intellectualproperty rights. There is a contradictory connection between the concepts of«electronic (digital) information», «audiovisual work», «computer program» and «literarywork», which establishes some uncertainty in the protection of video games,namely, what should be understood by these concepts in terms of law.The author found that the use of the latest technologies to improve the visual componentbrings the video game even closer to the game audiovisual object, which increasesthe complexity of the process of protection of intellectual property rights. However, thecurrent situation with the use of the term «computer program» in the context of protectionof intellectual property rights to video games does not cover all features of the latter,covering only the main program among the software recording and operation of thegame, such as audiovisual content. Therefore, there is a need to use the generalized conceptof «software» as opposed to the narrower concept of «computer program». In thiscase, in the absence of at least one of the characteristics of the multimedia work, the computerprogram should be referred to the scope of legal regulation of software.The author proposed to understand the video game as object of intellectual propertylaw in the following manner: multimedia work expressed in the form of digital(electronic) information, the principle of which is determined by the algorithms of thesoftware provided for installation in the memory of computer devices.In general, the digital nature of video games presupposes a revision of existing approachesto the protection of intellectual property rights, which may be aimed atweakening the regulatory function of the law where it is possible to regulate the relationshipby more flexible means.

scholarly journals THE RIGHT OF AUTHORSHIP ON A WORK

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-160
Author(s):  
Ciprian Raul Romiţan
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Moral Rights ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Natural Connection ◽  
Artistic Work ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

The moral rights represent the legal expression of the relationship between the workand its creator; they precede, survive and exert a permanent influence on the economic rights.Moral rights are independent of economic rights, the author of a work preserving these rightseven after the transfer of its property rights.The right to claim recognition as the author of the work, called in the doctrine as the"right of paternity of the work" is enshrined in art. 10 lit. b) of the law and it is based on theneed to respect the natural connection between the author and his work. The right toauthorship is the most important prerogative that constitutes intellectual property rights ingeneral and consists of recognizing the true author of a scientific, literary or artistic work.

Part I The Nature of Intangible Property, 7 Intellectual Property

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Smith Marcus ◽  
Leslie Nico
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
Property Right ◽  
Moral Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Right ◽  
Confidential Information ◽  
The Right

This chapter examines intellectual property. The governing principles relating to intellectual property are very different from the principles that underlie other choses, like rights under contracts or debts. Like shares, intellectual property rights are characterized by specific statutory rules relating to their creation, as well as to their transfer. Intellectual property rights can be divided under six heads: patents; copyright; moral rights; industrial design rights; trademarks; and confidential information. In each case, the holder of the right is able—by virtue of ownership—to prevent others from doing what they otherwise could do. Each of these intellectual property rights has four different aspects: the intellectual property right itself; rights of action for infringement; validity challenges; and licensing.

scholarly journals Protecting Related Creations to Fashion in the Framework of Literary and Artistic Property Rights of Iran and France

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Sattar Zarkalam ◽  
Amin Rooholamini
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
French Law ◽  
Industrial Property ◽  
Iranian Law ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Time Periods

In today’s world where the process of development and the industry is evolving more rapidly than expected, the legal notions are going forward on their compliance in line with these developments. The increasing development of intellectual property rights and their samples is an example of this change. One of the most important issues and instances of this tendency in legal rights is associated with fashion productions and creations. France, as one of the greatest leading country in fashion industry since long time ago, has legally protected the dress and beautiful creations in the intellectual property rules and in the different time periods, under the various titles, including the drawings and models rights, industrial property rights, literary and artistic property rights. French jurisprudence has broadly interpreted the concept of the fashion industry and consequently, the dress and beauty creations that have evolved not only the goods, but all parties involved in the production of the fashion industry. In Iranian law also, although there is no progress in this field compared to French law, with an optimistic interpretation of the rules of its intellectual property, it can be associated with Droit d'-auteur rules in addition to the industrial property rights under different titles such as design and drawings, Applied artwork, folklore etc.

scholarly journals Pembatalan Hak Merek Yang Telah Dijadikan Jaminan Fidusia

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Delila Pritaria Cantika
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Registered Trademark ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
The Law ◽  
A Company ◽  
Adequate Evidence

Trademark as a part of intellectual property rights in essence is a sign to identify and distinguishing a product that made by a company with other products in the market. Trademark must be registered to gain a legal recourse in the form of Rights Over Trademark. However a registered trademark can still be nullified, based on a certain adequate evidence the registered trademark cannot fulfilled the absolute grounds or relative grounds. In furtherance, nowadays trademark legally feasible to be registered as a collateral. And as for the most accurate form of the collateral itself according to the law shall be registered fiduciary guaranty.

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