Intellectual Piracy of Radio and Television Programs

Abstract

Modern comparative laws the in the current age agreed to recognize the rights of intellectual property, copyright and insurance protection of these rights because it entails the moral rights of an intellectual and creative effort and financial value and radio and visual programs is one of the categories that received special attention in recent legislation including the Jordanian law for the protection of copyright and the most important in this law is the- Author Copyright Protection Act - including acts and multiple workbooks including audiovisual workbooks which known as radio and television programs in terms of inclusion within the respected works as a right of the author and the most important, radio and television programs also received great interest as a result of its quick and sophisticated appearance at the moment and its multiplicity ways of circulation. The emergence of prominent of audio and visual works (radio programs and television) and evolution rapidly role in the events of a type of intellectual development to highlight a number of problems which led delegated to go legal to protect these works, there are difficulties facing the protection of any attack located them and protect those that its output and that can be said about (as bodies radio and television have the right to the author inherent intellectual property rights to their broadcasts and television), and thus it is necessary to stand on the mechanism that dealt national legislation including copyright law audiovisual media or even civil and criminal legislation and know the position of Jordanian legislator and over his handling of the manifestations of abuse and to what extent we can say it has provided legal protection for these works.

Keywords:  intellectual Piracy, copyright and insurance protection