Moral and Economic Right of Performers - Case Study Example

Whenever the innovation is protected by the law, it implies that the authority restricts from the plagiarisation of the product by ordaining the law; and the authority is, thereby, giving the owner or the innovator of the good or service the recognition for the unique feature that is the brainchild of the innovator. For this protective purpose, several legal norms have been introduced in order to defend the concern of an innovator from unauthorized use by others. The objective of such legal norms is to defend the interest of the innovator by curbing the possibility of unauthorized utilization of the unique feature for either economic or non-economic purpose.

Two of the most popular protection laws are the copyright act and the intellectual property right act. Those have been infixed to barricade piracy and the illegal uses of the production process or the brand name. For example, we can take the concept of the operating system Windows XP. The product is undoubtedly a new innovation having some unique characteristics. The copyright is given to Microsoft Corporations Ltd and hence no other company can use the technology in some other name nor can it use the name Windows XP for their product.

This is the special characteristic of the copyright or the intellectual property right act that ensures some interests of the innovators and the companies who introduce such products for the market. The more significance of the copyright or the intellectual property right is applicable for the authors. By the copyright act generally, the law protects the intellectual capacity of the author and his creation so that it cannot be pirated.1 In this discussion, we should gradually go through the details of economic and moral right acts for the authors and the performers like actors, singers or stage performers.

The main question arises whether the actors are better protected than the performers.