If someone reproduces your work, distributes your work, broadcasts your music, mutilates or modifies your work without your authorisation, they have infringed your copyright.
Protection of Copyright
Unlike trademarks, you do not necessarily have to register a copyright–it is a right that accrues by virtue of creation of either literary or artistic works such as books, art pieces, music compositions, movies, photographs, works of architecture and speeches or even sermons.
Copyright
You have authored a best-seller novel or book, created a computer program, created a music piece, a work of art, a building model in architecture, or taken a photograph– these are either literary or artistic works that one can have a copyright over.
Inspiration or Imitation
We hope that the previous articles provided enough insights to help you better understand what a trademark is, how you can register and what constitutes infringement. We wrap up our segment on trademarks with interesting trademarks debacles.
Trademark Infringement
What if someone infringes on your registered trademark? Someone imitating or translating your trademark in a manner that alludes to a
connection between your products and theirs may be a cause for great concern–is it an infringement?
Trademark Registration
You have developed a great symbol to be come your trademark. How do you go about registering it? Section 76 of the Industrial Property Act of2010 sets out the process of registering a trademark in Botswana.
Trademarks
A trademark means any visible sign capable of distinguishing goods or services of an enterprise. It can be a word, symbol or sign concerned with or used for the purpose of marketing the products or services.
The Arbitral Award
Last week we discussed ways in which the parties involved in a dispute may appoint an arbitrator as well as powers of the arbitrator once appointed. You can read about it here. Today we look into the arbitral award. //read more
Appointment of an Arbitrator
In this chapter, we consider the ways in which the parties may appoint an arbitrator and the powers of the arbitrator once appointed.
Data Protection Act – Compliance Extension
On 6 October 2023, the Ministry for State President published the Data Protection (Amendment) Act (Transitional Period) Order, 2023 (the Extension Order), in terms of which the data processing compliance transition period under the Data Protection Act, 2018, No. 32 of 2018 (the Data Protection Act) has been further extended to 13 October 2024.