We are excited to announce that our managing director, Ms. Maryam Ronagh, has recently obtained a WIPO Certificate for the Advanced Course on Copyright and Related Rights from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Ronagh was granted admission to this course through the International Women’s Day WIPO Academy Scholarship Award for Distance Learning Courses. “Completing this course and achieving success in it was crucial for me. When I established Saba Agency, I needed to ensure that I had a strong understanding of copyright to better serve my clients,” she shared regarding her motivation for taking the course.
The course consisted of 13 modules as follows:
- Module 1: Copyright in the Context of Intellectual Property. Historical Background and International Conventions
- Module 2: The Berne Convention: Principles, authorship, and the notion of ‘works’
- Module 3: The Berne Convention: Content of Protection: Rights, Exceptions and Limitations
- Module 4: The Berne Convention: special types of works and situations
- Module 5: The TRIPS Agreement and the WIPO Copyright Treaty
- Module 6: Related rights
- Module 7: Sui generis regimes of protection, sui generis rights and unfair competition
- Module 8: The TRIPS Agreement and enforcement issues
- Module 9: Collective management of rights
- Module 10: Copyright on the Internet and other technological developments
- Module 11: The Marrakesh Treaty
- Module 12: Expressions of Folklore and Copyright
- Module 13: IP and Development: Flexibilities in Copyright Law
For those interested in enrolling in this course and exploring WIPO Academy’s other offerings, please visit their course catalog here.
