Legal Protection of Literary and Artistic Works in Accordance With the Jordanian Copyright Law "A Comparative Study"

Abstract

The Jordanian legislator ensured on a variety of means aimed at protecting copyright material and moral of assault in order to ensure the safety of protected works of distortion and all that would detriment them, and thus ensure the rights of the author on the works. As the Jordanian legislator between what the precautionary measures that aim to stop abuse and reduce the aggravation of the damages caused by that and prevent the risk of publishing the work Impersonator or stop trading and delete some of its parts, or some modifications in addition to booking the impersonator workbook and that at the request of the author or withdrawn in order to stop publishing the imitator and the prevention of circulation and to prevent the aggressor from the disposition of counterfeit copies of the work as part of the booking procedures prescribed by law.

As if the attack took place on the work protected under copyright law, it is not the author's methods, but civil and penal responsibility, which aims to deter the aggressor to copyright through civil sanctions in the form of compensation to the author who is the right holder. In addition to criminal penalties original or dependency as a result of the prescribed legal assault on the rights of the author of what injury caused by material and moral damage.

Key words : assault , Jordanian legislator , counterfeit , copyright