Barbados Advocate
Established October 1895 See Inside Sunday April 25, 2021 $2 VAT Inclusive FAIR DEAL FOR Give more respect for intellectual property WRITERS! rights in Barbados Caddle: Sarah Ann Gill paved the By Cara L. Jean-Baptiste a license with The UWI Cave Hill start using the system in a way that Campus.” benefited them. However, that would way for other GOVERNMENT institutions are Additionally,he stated that there was mean that the Ministry of Education the biggest abusers of intellectual no respect for intellectual property in should look to use more books by local women to follow property and it is time for Barbados, because there were many writers for their scholastic programmes, something to be done about it. organisations in the country that were but this is not happening. Antonio ‘Boo’ Rudder, well-known using intellectual properties and were Furthermore, Rudder said: “Within – Page 2 musician and author, highlighted this as not paying royalties. recent times, there have been some he spoke during the National Cultural Because of this, Rudder believed that challenges in terms of fair dealings, Foundation’s (NCF) Beyond the Book it was important for writers to learn but the question is that fair dealing webinar. and understand the terms of copyright, can only be fair dealing if you are not “The Government is the biggest so that they could protect their work taking advantage of a piece of work or abuser of intellectual properties and no one would be able to use their exploiting the work to the writer’s in Barbados – the schools and the work without them being rewarded for detriment.
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