Copyright Definition

2.0 Copyright

2.1 Definition of copyright

According to Lee and Detta (2014), Copyright can be defined as a right to authorise the use of one’s work in a various ways. This can prevent other for taking advantage ownership of the original owner works. Copyright only exists in original works or if the work is the result of the author’s own effort and is not copied from someone else, it will be original as far as the copyright protection concerned. But the literacy or merits artistic of the work is not taken into consideration and quality is irrelevant as it need to be unique in its concept. Thus, copyright protects a wide variety works and in essence reserves to the copyright owner the right to make copies of the work and to authorize the

It is consider as copyright infringement if a person reproduces in any material form, performs, shows, plays or redistribute to public, communicates by cable or broadcast the whole work or a part of it whether in its original or derivative form. Next, imports any article into Malaysia for the purposes of trade or financial gain when that person knows that the making of article was done without the consent of its copyright

Copyright law has undergone various significant updates along with amendments in 1990, 1999, 2000 and 2003. Later on Copyright Act 1987 have been extended to cover sound recordings, films, television, radio broadcasts, published editions of works and computer programmers.

For the protection of literacy works is governing under Section 3 of Copyright Act 1987 in which it protects all literacy works like novel, pamphlet, drama and so on. Musical works, artistic works, and film protection also governing under Section 3 of Copyright Act 1987 same as literacy works protection of copyright.

Under Section 17 (1) of Copyright Act 1987 is for protection of copyright that lasts for fifty years after the author died. Meanwhile, Section 17(2) of Copyright Act 1987 is for protection for fifty years if the works is not yet be published and it only governs at the first day of the work is published to the public. But protection for fifty years for film is under Section 18, Copyright Act 1987, sound recordings under Section 19 Copyright Act 1987 and broadcast under Section 20 Copyright Act