Author: Brenda Matanga
Nature and extent of copyright protection
This article is part of a series on Intellectual Property and its impact on innovators and entrepreneurs. Now that you have created the be–all and end–all of source codes and written it down (somewhere safe we hope); and you know that your copyright exists automatically so congratulations; you are now a copyright holder…now what does […]
Reflections on the World IP Day: Did Zimbabwe have reason to celebrate?
As the rest of the world commemorated World Intellectual Property Day on the 26th of April, as an ordinary Zimbabwean citizen I pondered on the relevance of this day to the people of Zimbabwe. It then dawned on me that indeed we had every reason as Zimbabweans to celebrate the bit of our achievements with […]
Shhhhhhhhh… It’s all in the Secrets!
This is a series of guest articles by Brenda Matanga on Intellectual Property and its impact on innovators and entrepreneurs. Benjamin Franklin, one of America’s founding fathers in his book entitled Poor Richard’s Almanack aptly described the essence of secrecy in a famous quote, “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” The […]
Blurred lines: Ideas versus expressions in Copyright Law for startups
This is a series of guest articles by Brenda Matanga on Intellectual Property and its impact on innovators and entrepreneurs The foundational principle of Copyright Law is that it protects the expression of ideas and not the ideas themselves as such. This is easy enough to say but is often difficult to understand in practice […]
Protect your idea, after all it’s all you have got!
This is a series of guest articles by Brenda Matanga on Intellectual Property and its impact on innovators and entrepreneurs Every tech entrepreneur’s heart lies the dream of converting their intellectual capital into a huge pay check. After many sleepless nights of working on what you hope is a million dollar project in your own […]