COPYRIGHT
THE RIGHTS OF AUTHORS, OF THOSE WHO CREATE AND COMMUNICATE CULTURE THROUGH THEIR WORKS
The ability to express oneself is an attribute of every human being. When that ability takes shape in an original form, whatever language is used, a work is born: literary, musical, photographic, pictorial, computer, audiovisual... The person who created it is an author, and the law recognises them as having a special status as owner, limited in time and with economic and moral elements.
Is what I have created a work? Do I have to register it? What rights do I have? These are common questions among authors. Those who work with them also have similar doubts: Do I have to make my employees sign copyright assignment contracts? If I commission a work, can I use it freely? What are collecting societies and how do they work?
The answers come from a network of national, regional and international regulations, to which we must add an increasingly rich body of case law, both national and EU. As always, the risks are inversely proportional to the knowledge of all this material.
WHAT WE DO AT S/M
COPYRIGHT
The rights of authors, of those who create and communicate culture through their works
RIGHTS RELATED TO COPYRIGHT
Artists, producers and performers enable authors’ works to reach the general public
DESIGN LAW
Between the useful and the beautiful, designers produce objects that stride the line between creation and invention
TRADEMARK LAW AND OTHER DISTINCTIVE SIGNS
These are the signs, names and/or graphics that distinguish a product or service from others
DOMAIN NAMES
Are alphanumeric signs that delineate and lead to your little piece of space, but in virtual territory.
PATENT AND UTILITY MODEL LAW
Protects inventors, who invent things that facilitate our relationship with the environment in which we live
PLANT AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL LAW
These are special inventions because they involve the modification of living beings, animals or plants.
INDUSTRIAL SECRET
The oldest form of protecting innovation, with contractual formulas
COMPETITION LAW AND UNFAIR COMPETITION
Fair competition must be regulated because competition is necessary, except when it is unfair
PATRIMONIAL RIGHT TO IMAGE
Image is the personal property of those who are able to give it value and can trade with it
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW
All of the above and more, but filtered through the technologies that digitisation has brought with it
DATA PROTECTION
Data and the information it provides is the new oil, and its use must be regulated
ENTERTAINMENT LAW
Another way of looking at intellectual property, from the mass media and the entertainment industry
ADVERTISING LAW
Creations affected by many rights, consumption, ip, image or competition
TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS
The creations and inventions of groups that maintain their traditions also deserve regulation to protect them