Intellectual Property Rights In Oman And Challenges Ahead | Menafn.com

Intellectual property theft: "Let's hire her to get her to teach us everything and then we'll lay her off because we can't afford her." Intellectual property theft: "Let's hire her to get her to teach us everything and then we'll lay her off because we can't afford her." Katie Mallory In April 2006 the housing market crash in California was about six months old and cabinet shops were suffering. Precision Cabinets and Trim in Brentwood, CA. was on the verge of laying off 30% of their employees, but they had a rare opportunity to hire a drafter who had worked at Savage Designer Cabinets in Rocklin, CA. If Precision could learn how to build cabinets like Savage then they would make a lot more money, and so they hired me as a designer even though they couldn't afford it, and two weeks later they laid off 30% of their employees. I brought them an $85,000 cabinet order and I handled the project myself. It is difficult to convince people to care about intellectual property when you tell them that an international company such as Microsoft is losing a little bit of money because of piracy, but it will be more convincing if we have campaigns that illustrate how Omani SMEs and artists are not able to survive because of piracy. When it comes to protection, I believe that the Omani intellectual property laws provide more than enough legal rights for authors and innovators. What the law needs to do is provide reasonable rights for the users of protected works so that society can benefit from the protected works to create more works that reflect the identity and culture of the country rather than push us to become a society that consumes culture without producing anything in return.

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