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Subject: Media and Information Literacy Quarter: 2 Week: 11

Topic: Legal, Ethical, and Societal Issues in Media and Information Notes: 11

Notes 11 – Legal, Ethical, and Societal Issues in Media and Information

What is intellectual property?

IP refers to creations of the mind, such as inventions; designs; and symbols, names and images
used in commerce IP is protected in law by, for example, patents, copyright and trademarks, which
enable people to earn recognition or financial benefit from what they invent or create. By striking the
right balance between the interests of innovators and the wider public interest, the IP system aims to
foster an environment in which creativity and innovation can flourish.

TYPES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. Copy right a legal term used to describe the rights that creators have over their literary and
artistic works
• books, music, paintings, sculpture and films, to computer programs, databases,
advertisements, maps and technical drawings

Title: The Creative Industry: Artists' Intellectual Property Rights

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA6q-jgyhgc
2. Patent an exclusive right granted for an invention
• provides the patent owner with the right to decide how - or whether - the invention can be used
by others
3. Trademarks a sign capable of distinguishing the goods or services of one enterprise from those
of other enterprises.
4. Industrial Design constitutes the ornamental or aesthetic aspect of an article
• may consist of three-dimensional features, such as the shape or surface of an article, or of two-
dimensional features, such as patterns, lines or color
5. Indications and Appellations of Origin signs used on goods that have a specific geographical
origin and possess qualities, a reputation or characteristics that are essentially attributable to that
place of origin
• most commonly includes the name of the place of origin of the goods.

FAIR USE means you can use copyrighted material without a license only for certain purposes.
These include:
 Commentary
 Criticism
 Reporting
 Research
 Teaching
Guidelines for Fair Use
 A majority of the content you create must be your own.
 Give credit to the copyright holder.
 Don’t make money off of the copyrighted work.

CREATIVE COMMONS
Creative Commons is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of
creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released
several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to the public.
 Attribution: You must credit the creator.
 Non-Commercial: You can't make a profit.
 No Derivative Works: You can't change the content.
 Share Alike: You can change the content, but you have to let other people use your new work
with the same license as the original.
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8293
This Act shall be known as the “Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines.
Works are created on the sole fact of their very creation - regardless of their mode or form of
expression as well as their content, the quality of said content, and purpose.
Works covered by the copyright law are;
(1) literary and artistic works and
(2) derivative works.
On the other hand, works not protected by the copyright law are
(1) unprotected subject matter and
(2) works of the government.

LITERARY AND ARTISTIC WORKS

According to Section 172 of the Intellectual Property Code, literary and artistic works refer to
the original and intellectual creations protected from the moment of their creation.

The list of literary and artistic works includes the following:

 Books, pamphlets, articles and other writings.
 Periodicals and newspapers
 Lectures, sermons, addresses, dissertations prepared for oral delivery, whether or not reduced in
writing or other material form
 Letters
 Dramatic or dramatico-musical compositions; choreographic works or entertainment in dumb
shows
 Musical compositions, with or without word
 Works of drawing, painting, architecture, sculpture, engraving, lithography or other works of art;
models or designs for works of art.
 Original ornamental designs or models for articles of manufacture, whether or not registrable as
an industrial design, and other works of applied art
 Illustrations, maps, plans, sketches, charts and three-dimensional works relative to geography,
topography, architecture or science
 Drawings or plastic works of a scientific or technical character
 Photographic works including works produced by a process analogous to photography; lantern
slides
 Audiovisual works and cinematographic works and works produced by a process analogous to
cinematography or any process for making audio-visual recordings
 Pictorial illustrations and advertisements
 Computer programs
 Other literary, scholarly, scientific and artistic works