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Staff of Sen. Vicente Sotto III admits lifting paragraphs (text, some legal provisions).

      News peg: “The chief of staff of Sen. Vicente “Tito” Sotto III finally admitted that parts of his speech against the RH bill on Wednesday, August 15, were copied from a blog by a foreign author who calls herself the “Healthy Home Economist”.

      “Lawyer Hector A. Villacorta, Sotto’s chief of staff, wrote Sarah Pope a response in the comments section of her blog in which he said: ” `I understand you felt slighted that your blog was not attributed to you which became part of the speech of the senator.’ ” (rappler.com)

      The following provisions of the Intellectual Property Code may be relevant to the right of the author to require that his/her work be attributed to him/her: 

      “Chapter X. Moral Rights. Section 193. Scope of Moral Rights. – The author of a work shall, independently of the economic rights in Section 177 or the grant of an assignment or license with respect to such right, have the right:

     “193.1.     To require that the authorship of the works be attributed to him, in particular, the right that his name, as far as practicable, be indicated in a prominent way on the copies, and in connection with the public use of his work;

       “193.2.   To make any alterations of his work prior to, or to withhold it from publication;

        “193.3.  To object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of, or other derogatory action in relation to, his work which would be prejudicial to his honor or reputation; and

         “193.4. To restrain the use of his name with respect to any work not of his own creation or in a distorted version of his work. (Sec. 34, P.D. No. 49)”

 

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lighting confessions

This is the original of the background photo, shot by Myra Lambino-Ramos, Crystal Cave in Sequoia Park. i lit it up a little. oops, inverted it a little too.  confession time. forgive me. i sometimes light up some of the photos and videos here, photojournalists say it’s okay to light up or crop a photo as long as your tweaking doesn’t change the content but makes the visual easier to see…but you can’t invert them, in photojourn, that is (that probably also applies to nature photography i guess, unless you did your shot hanging upside down by a rig); you can’t brush or erase, etc., either, in photojourn (as well as in nature photography), it changes the reality you’re trying to document and bring to the viewers. Why do i invert some of the photos? it changes the “feel” or “mood” or “emotional content” (if you can find emotional content in stillife or landscape). The stalactites look like daggers in the original ; inverted, they look like growing stone plants. (i think). you also can’t alter a work without permission of the creator, under the Intellectual Property Code. But the photographer is my loving and lovable sister, i thought she would forgive me when i tweak just a teeny-weeny tiny bit to suit the background of the blog…. :), and i’ve made confessions… (leave enough alone kasi!)