By Dr AbdelGadir Warsama, Legal Counsel

28.09.2023
Copyrights, almost everywhere, are protected and recognized by certain legislations particularly “The Copyrights Law”. Also, most countries and jurisdictions are following the “Berne Convention” and “WIPO” copyrights principles. The Berne Convention, is almost the base for modern national copyright laws.
Copyrights laws are to protect the rights of authors to promote arts and science and enable authors to benefit financially from their works. As per the law an author is the creator of a copyrightable creation, therefore, any author creation that meets the standards of copyright laws is protectable.
We have noticed, many authors are facing trespassing and violations from others. Legally, if someone infringes your copyright, you have legal grounds to pursue him and claim compensation for financial loss incurred. If others are using your work without your knowledge or permission, you can stop them and receive compensation for earnings they have made from your work. The law is clear in this respect to preserve your mind intellectual creation.
On the other hand, if your work attracted others, you can carefully look into good reasonable “licensing options” to benefit from the use of your creative intellectual work. Licensing is a legal authorization to others to use some or all of your copyrighted works. This could take the form of assignment, as copyrights are assignable provided that any assignment shall be in a written contract. We know, there are many acute disputes regarding such contracts, we say to authors beware and take care to protect the work \ produce of your intelligent smart mind.
The Copyright Law affords copyright protection to wide range of works. The protection is given to qualifying works upon their creation and this includes originality of the work and its fixation. In other words, to qualify for the necessary protection, the work must be “original” and has been “fixed” through writing, video or any other means to save the work for others to see or hear.
In case of trespass or infringement, the Copyright Laws provide for civil and criminal proceedings before competent Courts. Additionally, the aggrieved party, is entitled to ask for an order to prove infringement, prevention of the infringement and an order to seize the infringing products.
Copyrights, are legally protected and recognized as per local legislations and the adoption of relevant international conventions with particular refence to the “WIPO” World Intellectual Property Organization conventions and directives. By this legal protection coverage, all talented people are encouraged to produce new work for their benefit and to enrich our spirits and minds. The artistic and artesian work, nowadays, is very important for all and helps in raising our culture and the standard of our living.