Overview

Among the seven regimes of intellectual property (kekayaan intelektual - “IP”) rights, copyrights offer the most extensive range of protected subjects as they encompass the domains of science, art and literature and stretch to computer programming.^[1]  In essence, copyrights entail exclusive rights that are granted to authors/creators (“Authors”) of copyrighted works in order to control their utilization, distribution and performance, as well as to prevent others from publishing or reproducing said works.^[2]

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