Literary criticism

2003). IP basically includes most human effort expended in creating a product. Industrial property and copyright together are called Intellectual property (IP); because they relate to creations of the mind such as inventions, literary and artistic works, symbols, names, images, and designs (World Intellectual Property Organization, n.d.). IP usually relates to creations without specific physical forms. For example, the design, operating system (OS), name and…

In my understanding, intellectual property rights (IPR) is the official rights, resulted from the intellectual activity such as industrial, scientific, literature, and artistic. Each country has laws to protect the intellectual property, and there are also two main reasons to protect that intellectual property. First is to give statutory expression to the moral and economic rights of creators in their creations and the public rights in access to those creations. Then, the second reason is to…

The United States of America is built on the backs of innovators, and forward-thinkers. To protect these men and women lawmakers have drafted some of the most important pieces of legislation in our country’s history: copyright law. Copyright’s purpose is to protect the intellectual property of creators, so that their work cannot be used, or reproduced without their consent. This gives creators the security that their assets will not be stolen, and thus, creates an environment that encourages new…

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. This is ABC Radio National. I am Sorakthun Ly, running literature exploration of the week. This week’s theme of our literature analysis is oppression. We have chosen to discuss this topic because media often portrays issues in a distorted way and based on one-sided perspectives. The aim of this dissection is to divulge the way in which oppression is represented in the novel, and how language and plots are manipulated to shape the picture of oppression. The…

This first independent Indian Copyright Act is complaint with most international conventions and treaties in the field of copyright. India is a member of the Berne Convention, the Universal Copyright Act (UCC), 1952 and the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) of 1995. Though India is not a member of the Rome Convention, the Copyright Act, 1957 is fully compliant with this convention. To cope with the challenges posed by the development of new technologies…

The first Law on Industrial Property in Iran was in 1925, which came into force from 1926 and Registration Authority was working under the Ministry of agriculture, trade and public services. Trademarks were recorded in a journal called the Journal of Agriculture (published from August 22, 1928) in order of insertion of registration number. For the first time in Iran patent law and its civil and criminal protection applied in 1931 and the grant of the relevant license were assigned to the…

Monkey Selfies: Questioning Copyright Laws and Constitutional Applications Last week, American animal rights organization the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, more commonly known as PETA, filed a novel lawsuit in San Francisco’s Federal Court on behalf of a macaque monkey for the copyright ownership over “selfies” it took dating back to 2011. The suit requests a court order to give PETA allowance to administer proceeds from the photos to benefit the monkey and the macaque reserve to…

Copyrights serve an artist, inventor, or business/ corporation the exclusive rights to his or her material/ products. Commonly, copyrights are used in defense of others who may claim another person’s/ corporation’s product. Therefore I believe that it is integral to protect the products of an individual or corporation. According to Richard A. Epstein, in his book titled, “The Creators Own Ideas”, he suggests that since we have private rights in land for a community we therefore should have…

Giving people a fair go is at the center of Australia culture, but when it comes to the likes of plagiarism the Australia culture can be quite harsh towards it. Defined as when a person is taking another persons ideas or a witters language and calls it there own work without crediting the other person. This will be demonstrated through the discussion of issues that may be cause due to plagiarism. Issues included for the person are the breach of trust for Students, teachers, customers and…

illustrated the use of literary criticism (new criticism), and it seemed to be the answer to historical criticisms fragmentation of the text. Literary critics analyzed the text according to such elements as structure, plot, character, and so forth. Robert Alter published his seminal work entitled, The Art of Biblical Narrative (1981), a project begun in 1971, after being asked to lecture on the literary study of the Bible at Stanford University. Alter’s response to higher criticism is…