Using and Protecting Intellectual Property
A student writes a poem and automatically owns the rights the moment it is written.
What is copyright protection?
Rights that protect the author’s name and the integrity of a work, even after ownership is transferred.
What are moral rights?
Rights that allow the creator to earn from and control the use of their work.
What are economic rights?
An identification number for serial publications like magazines, journals, and newsletters.
What is an ISSN?
The Philippine government office that issues ISSNs for free.
What is the National Library of the Philippines (NLP)?
Legal protections that act as shields over creations, inventions, and brand identity.
What are intellectual property rights?
A painter demands credit for their artwork even after selling it.
What is the right to attribution?
A creator decides whether others may copy their work in full or in part.
What is the right of reproduction?
Using parts of copyrighted works for school, research, criticism, or teaching without formal permission.
What is fair use?
The council under RA 11904 where NEDA participates to guide the growth of music, film, animation, gaming, and design sectors.
What is the Philippine Creative Industries Development Council (PCIDC)?
A business keeps its formula secret instead of registering it to maintain protection.
What is trade secret protection?
An author refuses to finish a commissioned work, even though damages may apply.
What is the right against forced creation?
A filmmaker asks permission to adapt a novel into a movie.
What is the right of transformation?
Permission explicitly granted by the creator allowing reuse of their work under certain conditions, like giving credit or no commercial use.
What is Creative Commons?
The 10-year roadmap adopted by the government to integrate creative industries into national development priorities (2025–2034).
What is the Creative Industries Roadmap?
Situations where others may use protected works for education, research, criticism, or news.
What is fair use?
The legal requirement that moral rights may only be waived through written consent.
What is waiver of moral rights in writing?
An author controls the first public release or sale of a book.
What is the right of first distribution?
The Philippine government agency that plans national economic development and aligns creative industries with the PDP.
What is NEDA?
A publication that comes out in parts or is regularly updated, such as school magazines or blogs.
What is a serial publication?
A copyrighted work is used freely because its legal protection has expired.
What is the public domain?
The duration of moral rights lasting throughout the author’s life and fifty years after death.
What is life of the author plus 50 years?
A song is streamed online only after the creator grants permission.
What is the right of communication to the public?
A one-time book publication that requires ISBN instead of ISSN.
What is a non-serial publication?
This identifies serials but does not give copyright protection.
What is an ISSN?