according to copyright system, the normal standard for protecting literary and artistic works is originality. hence, the international copyright treaties such as berne convention, while emphasizing on originality, avoid imposing other mandatory standards for protecting such works. however, these works are different forms of expression of various ideas and accordingly, comprise different content...

the world intellectual property organization copyright treaty (wct) is an international treaty on copyright law adopted by the member states of the world intellectual property organization (wipo) in geneva on december 20, 1996. it provides additional protections for copyright deemed necessary due to advances in information technology since the formation of previous copyright treaties before it....

in the previous article written by the author of this paper we saw that economic principles governing  legislation policy in the field of copyright make legislator enact efficient laws and regulations on copyright and prevent him to enact contrary regulations in the same fields. the previous article considered three economic principles and now this article tries to examine two economic principl...

copyright is basics in development and therefore the authors have monopoly rights .but, the progress of science is depended to modification& distribution of works .now, copy left license is created and while a copyright generally enables a person to claim “all rights-reserved,” a copy left generally means “some – rights - reserved. there is the shift from copyright licenses to copy left license...

the core concept of plagiarism is defined as the use of other people's ideas or words without proper acknowledgement. herein, we used a questionnaire to assess the knowledge of students of tehran university of medical sciences (tums) regarding plagiarism and copyright infringement. the questionnaire comprised 8 questions. the first six questions of the questionnaire were translations of exercis...