FILCOLS held its third IP in the Age of Jejemon lecture at the AVR, Global City Innovative College, 3rd Floor, Bonifacio Technology Center, 31st Street corner 2nd Avenue, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City last 14 January 2011.
Almost two hundred individuals graced the event. Some were GCIC faculty. Most were students coming from Nursing and Business Administration courses.
The event started with National Anthem. Then Professor Joan Lugti went on with an opening prayer.
Then Professor Jayson Bergania formally welcomed everyone to the event. The crowd cheered when Professor Bergania announced that the students may talk in Filipino during the question and answer portion. GCIC has an English-only policy.
He was followed by Professor Evangeline Tobias, the Academic Affairs Coordinator, who gave her welcome remarks as well. She introduced Alvin Buenaventura, the resource speaker.
Alvin Buenaventura, the executive director of FILCOLS, presented some powerpoint slides about the connection of the Philippine economics, intellectual property, copyright, education and academic publishing.
He delivered the lecture in Filipino to make intellectual property concepts and issues less agonizing and intimidating for the Filipino students. He peppered the lecture with anecdotes and jokes. The audience had fun listening to even the most difficult concepts in Intellectual Property.
After the lecture came the questions.
A faculty member asked what are the provisions of IP code when it comes to photocopying of books.
Buenaventura replied that there are three steps to take so one will know if a photocopying activity is legal or not:
1. if it's for non-profit use
2. if the part that is being photocopied is not the "heart" of the book
3. if it doesn't unjustly affect the economic benefits of the copyright holder.
A student named Isagani Quidilla asked if plagiarism or copyright infringement is committed when one is doing a research to prove a theory for example "all heavenly bodies are made of cheese" and then someone from another school, place or country is also doing a research about it to prove the same exact theory. He added that both of the researchers didn't have any idea of each other's existence.
Buenaventura gave an example. He stated a theory about cosmology that contains names of two people. According to him, it was named after them because it turned out that both observed a heavenly body at the same time but from different places. They also published articles about their findings almost at the same time. They didn't know each other and yet they were very fascinated with one heavenly body and a theory. He added that it's possible that two researchers or writers from two different cultures or places come up with strikingly identical scientific or literary work.
He stressed though that it is very important to publish own works even if one is still a student. This will help inform others what has already been written or researched about.
Jade Yves asked if downloading movies from the internet is wrong.
Buenaventura said if its for one's own personal use, it is okay. But when shared to others, even if no money is involved, it is already considered wrong.
Paolo Ramirez shared an anecdote he heard from his relative where a person was asked to pay KFC a certain amount because of singing the Happy Birthday song in a celebration inside its area.
Buenaventura said that it shouldn't be the person who must pay a certain amount to KFC. It should be the KFC if it is using songs that are under copyright to entertain dining customers.
It's possible that the payee will be FILSCAP (Filipino Society of Authors and Composers), the collective management organization in the Philippines for music-related works. If the copyright owner of the Happy Birthday song is part of the repertoire that is being carried and represented by FILSCAP, the entity that uses it must pay a certain amount to FILSCAP.
There were not enough time to tackle all of the questions from the audience. Bergania, the moderator of the event, invited everyone to send queries to FILCOLS through email.
Then, Beverly Siy, Executive Officer of FILCOLS, gave the closing remarks and acknowledged the individuals who made the event possible: GCIC's Engineer Michael Tan, President, Dr. Carolina P. Danao, VPAA, Evangeline Tobias, Academic Affairs Coordinator and Jayson Bergania, assistant of the president, who did the coordination in the early phase of event planning.
FILCOLS’ IP in the Age of Jejemon aims to help the students be aware of what they can do for the country through respect for IP. The first lecture was held in University of Santo Tomas. The second one was held in Ateneo de Naga University.
FILCOLS receives support from the Norwegian Copyright Development Association (NORCODE) and Kopinor. NORCODE is an international copyright development group funded by five copyright societies namely KOPINOR, GRAMO, TONO, BONO and NORWACO. KOPINOR is the reproduction rights (RRO) of Norway while FILCOLS is the RRO of the Philippines.
FILCOLS encourage the heads of the universities and colleges to hold similar events in their respective campuses. It will help develop more responsible members of the academe, students, professors, scholars and writers.
FILCOLS is open to invitations and proposals in and outside of Metro Manila. Send queries to filcols@gmail.com.
Written by Beverly Siy. You are welcome to repost or include this in any publication provided that the writer/copyright owner gets credit. Thank you.
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