Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Intellectual Property
- 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
- 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
- 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)