Copyright
Copyright (international symbol: ©, Unicode: U+00A9) is the exclusive right of the Creator or Copyright Holder to regulate, publish or reproduce the use of the results of casting ideas, creations or certain information or to give permission for it without reducing restrictions according to laws and regulations. applicable laws.[1] Basically, copyright is “the right to copy a work”. Copyright may also allow the holder of the right to restrict unauthorized copying of a work. In general, copyright has a certain limited validity period.
Copyright applies to various types of works of art or copyrighted works or “creations”. Such works may include poetry, plays and other written works, films, choreographic works (dance, ballet, etc.), musical compositions, sound recordings, paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, computer software, radio and television broadcasts. , and (in certain jurisdictions) industrial design.
Copyright is a type of intellectual property right, but it differs markedly from other intellectual property rights (such as patents, which give a monopoly on the use of an invention), because copyright is not a monopoly right to do something, but a right to prevent people from doing something. others do.
Laws governing copyright usually only cover works that are the embodiment of a particular idea and do not cover general ideas, concepts, facts, styles, or techniques that may be embodied or represented in the work. For example, copyrights related to the Mickey Mouse cartoon character prohibit unauthorized parties from distributing copies of the cartoon or creating works imitating the particular mouse character created by Walt Disney, but it does not prohibit the creation or other artwork about the mouse character in general.
Rights protected by copyright,
Exclusive rights
Some points of concern in copyright (infographic)
Some of the exclusive rights that are generally granted to copyright holders are the right to:
make copies or reproductions of the work and sell such copies (including, generally, electronic copies),
import and export jobs,
create derivative works or derivative works of creations (creative adaptations),
showing or exhibiting works in public,
sell or transfer these exclusive rights to other people or parties.
What is meant by “exclusive rights” in this case is that only the copyright holder is free to use the copyright, while other people or parties are prohibited from using the copyright without the approval of the copyright holder.
This concept also applies in Indonesia. In Indonesia, the exclusive rights of the copyright holder include “the activities of translating, adapting, arranging, modifying, selling, renting, lending, importing, exhibiting, publicly showing, broadcasting, recording, and communicating works to the public through all means”[2].
In addition, the law in force in Indonesia also regulates “related rights”, which are related to copyright and also exclusive rights, which are owned by actors of art (i.e. musicians, actors, dancers, etc.), sound recording producers, and others. . broadcasting institutions to regulate the use of documentation of artistic activities carried out, recorded, or broadcast by each (Law 28/2014 chapter III). For example, a singer has the right to prohibit others from reproducing a voice recording of his singing.
Exclusive rights protected by copyright can be transferred, for example through inheritance or a written agreement (Law 28/2014 article 16). The copyright owner can also allow other parties to use their exclusive rights with a license, with certain conditions (Law 28/2014 chapter XI).