Public property

Objects of the copyright and the adjacent rights
The copyright is the legal term designating the rights, given to authors literary and works of art. The copyright extends on products of a science, the literature and the arts which are growing out of creative activity, irrespective of appointment and advantage of product, and also from a way of its expression. The copyright extends both on promulgated, and on the unpublished products existing in any objective form:
1) written (the manuscript, typewriting, a musical notation etc.);
2) oral (public pronouncing, public execution etc.);
3) videorecordings (mechanical, magnetic, digital, optical etc.);
4) images (drawing, the sketch, a picture, the plan, the drawing, cinema - a body – video etc.);
5) volume-spatial (a sculpture, model, a breadboard model, a construction etc.) etc.The copyright does not extend on actually ideas, methods, processes, systems, ways, concepts, principles, opening, the facts.
According to the legislation on copyrights of Byelorussia to object of the copyright it is necessary to carry:
1) literary works (books, brochures, articles, etc.);
2) drama and is musical-drama products, choreography and pantomime products and others сценарные products;
3) pieces of music with the text and without the text;
4) audiovisual products (cinema - a body - video films, filmstrips both other film-and tele-products);
5) products of a sculpture, painting, a drawing, lithograph and other products of the fine arts;
6) applied art products;
7) products of architecture, town-planning and landscape gardening art;
8) photographic products and the products received in the ways, similar to a photo;
9) cards, plans, sketches, illustrations and the plastic products concerning geography, topography and other sciences;
10) computer programs;
11) other products.
Protection of computer programs extends on all kinds of computer programs (including operational systems) which can be expressed in any language and in any form, including the initial text and an objective code.
Objects of the copyright also concern:
1) derivative products (transfers, processings, summaries, abstracts, the resume, reviews, performances, musical arrangements and other processings of products of a science, the literature and art);
2) collections (anthologies, databases) and other compound products representing on selection or an arrangement of materials result of creative activity.
The copyright and the adjacent rights are necessary conditions of development of creativity, giving to authors stimulus in the form of a recognition and fair
material compensation. This system of protection of the rights provides to authors a guarantee of distribution of their products without fear of not manufacturing of copies or a piracy. And it, in turn, provides more an easy approach of the population of the countries of the world to cultural values, to knowledge and entertainments, and also guarantees their higher quality.
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