Anti-piracy in our country

Piracy

• it is stealing of property.

• practice of a pirate; robbery or illegal violence at sea.
  

• the unauthorized reproduction or use of a copyrighted book, recording, television program, patented invention, trademarked product, etc.: The record industry is beset with piracy.

Anti-piracy

Anti-piracy in our country is badly poor. But our government is striving their best to accumulate the rampant stealing in our country. Our leaders made the best that they can to filed a law to stop piracy and this is some of it.

• Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines

Some notable points about the new law are:
· It expressly protects databases and tables.
· It grants an exclusive rental right to the copyright owner.
· It recognizes and expands the protection of an author’s “moral rights”.
That is, the right of an author to preserve the integrity of their works and
their name.
· It penalizes the possession of infringing software for the purposes of sale.

• Republic Act 9239 or the Optical Media Act of 2003.

AN ACT REGULATING OPTICAL MEDIA, REORGANIZING FOR THIS PURPOSE THE VIDEO GRAM REGULATORY BOARD, PROVIDING PENALTIES THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

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