For many years the protection of intellectual property has increased for the benefit of its creator. Georgia Harper lectures on the purposes of copyright and the two main traditions that countries around the world follow: Incentive and natural rights tradition. The incentive tradition offers creators a limited monopoly as an incentive, so they can recover their investment and be inclined to continue to create. The natural tradition recognizes and protects the right of the author as an inherent right and differs with the incentive tradition in three aspects: The extent of the limitations, the protection of moral rights, and the absence of formalities. Harper analyzes both by placing Guatemala as the example of the natural rights tradition and the United States as the example of the incentive tradition. She talks about the differences between these two methods, and various other aspects such as the moral rights in Guatemala, as well as the limitations on the copyright owners’ rights.
Georgia Harper
Georgia Harper is the scholarly communications advisor for the University of Texas Libraries. She was senior attorney and manager of the intellectual property section of the Office of General Counsel for the University of Texas System. She holds a BS in elementary education and a JD from the University of Texas at Austin, earning both degrees with honors. She has conducted several workshops and seminars on copyright issues and has been an advisor to the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Copyright Traditions and Future Directions Georgia Harper
Student Center Building, CE-200 Universidad Francisco Marroquín Guatemala, April 25, 2005
A New Media - UFM production. Guatemala, May 2005 Digital animation: Julio Valle, Alexander Arauz; camera: Rebeca Zúñiga, Sergio Miranda, Alexander Arauz; digital editing: Alexander Arauz; index: Joseph Cole; synopsis: Sebastian del Buey; synopsis reviser: Daphne Ortiz; publication: Pedro David España
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Initial credits
Purposes of copyright
United States
Guatemala and other countries
The two major copyright traditions
The incentive-based tradition
The natural rights tradition
Differences and similarities of the two traditions, regarding different areas of the law
What does copyright protect?
When does it begin and end?
In the US
In Guatemala
Exclusive rights of the copyright owner
Moral rights in Guatemala
Pecuniary rights
Limitations on the copyright owners' rights
Fair use
Limitations in Guatemala
Internationalization of copyright regimes
Effects of a strong copyright law: costs and benefits
Summary
Questions and discussion panel
How do you believe this debate should be carried?
Answer by Julio Cole
Who knows about the history of the Guatemalan copyright laws?
Answer by Carlos Melini
Luis Ruiz Chavarria: Could you comment on the effects of copyrights on the reduction of poverty?
Answer by Georgia Harper
Answer by Andrés Wyld
Marcos Ibárgüen: How may the incentive of formalities affect Guatemala? What do you think of the copyrights issues in the pharmaceutical industry?
Answer by Georgia Harper
Comment by Julio Cole
Discussion on the moral and legal nature of copyrights and intellectual property
Discussion on the enforcement of copyright laws in the US and Guatemala
Discussion on natural rights and the nature of property
Rodrigo Arias: Comment on the impossibility of preventing copying, due to modern technology
Luis Ruiz Chavarría: Are intangible goods property?
Discussion on the issue of monopoly
Conclusions
Final credits
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