LAW ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

SCHOOL OF LAW, SAN BEDA COLLEGE

FIRST SEMESTER, 2016-2017
Page 1 of 2 pages

ASSIGNMENT NO. 1. YES, IS IT

COPYRIGHTABLE! (NO, IT IS NOT.)
Please watch the video Intellectual Property Law: Why You Don't
have to be an Intellectual to Need it. (http://itunes.apple.com/ph/
podcast/intellectual-property-law/id431862921?i=93012316&mt=2).
Or at http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/law-society/intellectual-property-lawwhy-you-dont-have-to-be-intellectual-to-need-it/
After watching the video:
Please write a 400-word MEMORANDUM on: THE JOHN CAGE
"CREATION" IS COPYRIGHTABLE UNDER PHILIPPINE LAW.
or
THE JOHN CAGE "CREATION" IS NOT COPYRIGHTABLE UNDER
PHILIPPINE LAW.
based on your opinion. Assume that John Cage composed his work
yesterday. Make sure that when you make any assertion, you cite
your legal basis.
DEADLINE: August 25, 2016, not later than 12 midnight.
The file shall be in Portable Document File (PDF) format and
submitted online as an attachment to an email addressed to
askjun@rodriguez.ph.
At the SUBJECT portion of your email, please put
[#SBCSOLLIPXX], where XX represent your year and section,
[YOUR LAST NAME] [JOHN CAGE], IN CAPITAL LETTERS,
WITHOUT THE BRACKETS.
For example:
#SBCSOLLIP3S RODRIGUEZ JOHN CAGE
In all cases, if you have a classmate with THE SAME LAST NAME,
please indicate both your Last and First names, as in the following
example:

LAW ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

SCHOOL OF LAW, SAN BEDA COLLEGE
FIRST SEMESTER, 2016-2017
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RODRIGUEZNUMERIANO
At the end of your work, indicate the Word Count, i. e., [400 words]
PLAGIARISM, ANYONE?
Some of you may think that submitting something that is shoddy or
even copied and not original is all right because I may have not time
to read all the papers submitted and/or even if I did, that there is a
good chance that I will not notice such instances of cutting corners.
In a sense, you may be correct. But learning is not a cat-and-mouse
routine where I, as your teacher, have to ensure that you must
comply with the rules and that I must catch those who dont.
If you cut corners and you get away with it, you may think you are
lucky. But are you? You fail to get the education you paid for. You
consign yourself to mediocrity. And you think you are lucky?
But, If you are caught, you only have yourself to blame. I take the
matter very seriously.