about Copyright laws?

Question

What is it?? And how it is contributing to internationalization??

someone explain that pleasee.

Answer 1

Copyright laws protect creative works -- artwork, stories, songs, etc -- and provide for punishments if they are distributed or copied without permission from the creator (owner).

Each country has its own copyright laws, but there are numerous treaties that generally make one countries laws enforceable in many other countries. The net effect is that if you copyright your work in one country, that's generally going to be respected in many other countries.

These treaties allow for works to be shared and published (under license) in other counties, while still having the creator (composer/author/artist, etc) protected against people making unauthorized copies.

Answer 2

Internationalism is a whole other topic ... you need to ask about that under International organizations ... the way your phrased it, could be you have fallen for an urban legend or conspiracy theory.

We live in a Capitalist world, in which we want our artists authors composers inventors game-designers computer-programmers etc. to be compensated for the work that they do to contribute to the intellectual wealth of our nation. Even in other kinds of governments, they find this same approach worth while for reimbursing people who make good contributions to society.

Thus, the person who creates something, that person, or the publisher that they delegate the rights to, decides how people may copy their creations.

We get movies on TV at home ... we may copy the video to show on our home TV at another time, than when it was broadcast, but we may not give copy of that video to a friend, unless we have got permission from the publisher of the movie to do so, because by giving this to friends, that means we are undercutting the possible sales of the movie.

You buy a computer game ... the fine print probably says you can have this on one person computer at a time ... if you get tired of it & want to give it to a friend, you first have to delete it from the first computer, because only one person can be using it at a time ... if the game ends up on a bunch of different people computers at the same time, then the game publisher can sue you for violating their copyright ... they have a right to sell the game to any one person who wants to have a copy. By you giving copies to other people, you sabotage their sales. It does not matter if you doing it for free or not.

You buy a board game ... can you copy it, can you hold a tournament, can you use the images of the game in promoting a games convention? You have to get permission from the game publisher or game author to use the game in any way other than just playing the game.

You buy a book ... you can do anything you like with it, except make a copy to give someone else while you still keep the original.