Intellectual Property Law

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Intellectual Property Law
Silvino Diaz

How Does the EU Data Privacy Regulation Affect U.S. Businesses? (Part 1)

This regulation relates to both data privacy and data security. Data privacy is the right to control how information is collected and used; focusing on the use and governance of data. Data security, on the other hand, is focused on protecting data from, for example, attacks and exploitation of stolen data.

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Intellectual Property Law
Silvino Diaz

What is Important to Know About a Publishing Contract (Part 2)

Typically, an author does not receive royalties until the advance has been recouped. The advance is an advance against royalties. Usually, the amount paid to the author will depend on the format of the book being sold as well as on the book retailer selling it.

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Intellectual Property Law
Silvino Diaz

What is Important to Know About a Publishing Contract (Part 1)

The general trend in the publishing industry today is the growth in sales of ebooks and a decline in the print market. In 2018 it was observed that the bestseller lists have become dominated by mostly political works. Additionally, there is an ever-increasing boost in sales of works adopted for movies and TV series. 

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Intellectual Property Law
Eric Gros-Dubois

How to Prevent Cybersquatting

Cybersquatting or domain sharking is the act of registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name that is identical to, or confusingly similar to a registered trademark, with the bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of someone else’s trademark. By doing this, cyber squatters prevent anybody from buying the domain.

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Business Law
Silvino Diaz

How to Patent Internationally

It is worth noting that the granting of the patents still remains in control of the national or regional patent offices. This is due to the fact that there is no universal patent law, and each nation has different legal standards for granting patents as well as enforcing them.

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Business Law
Silvino Diaz

Design and Author’s Rights (Part 2)

The expression of the idea, being the artist’s intention – the artist’s purpose in creating that work. If we assume that the work is called “post post post modernism”; that would be the expression.

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Business Law
Silvino Diaz

Design & Author’s Rights (Part 1)

Intellectual property consists of four regimes of law that govern different aspects of human creations – that’s why it is called “intellectual” property; they are born from the intelligence and imagination of human beings. These laws are copyright, trademarks, business secrets, and patents.

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