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“Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and to live in real and current time. I assert these are perceptual illusions. Sensation is an abstraction, not a replication of the real world.” Vernon Mountcastle

Quote from YouTube Video: Kavli Prize Laureate Lecture – The Restless Brain

The Professional Speaking Guide

COPYRIGHT PROTECTION:

Complete details about copyright laws and intellectual property can be found at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO). Website: http://www.cipo.gc.ca

Telephone: General Enquiries: 819-997-1936 (Quebec, Canada 8:30am – 4:30pm EST) or 1-900-565-2476 for a $3.00 flat rate.

A Guide to Copyrights: View online at http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/cipo/cp/copy_gd_main-e.html or download a PDF version from that site or www.danieljanssen.com/Publications/CanadianCopyrightGuide.pdf

It is CIPO’s mission to accelerate Canada’s economic development by:
* fostering the use of intellectual property systems and the exploitation of intellectual property information;

* encouraging invention, innovation and creativity in Canada;

* administering the intellectual property systems in Canada. Patents, trade-marks, copyrights, industrial designs and integrated circuit topographies;

* promoting Canada’s international intellectual property interests.

 

Copyright Basics.
A copyright is recognized by the symbol. This is the exclusive right to copy a creative work or allow someone else to do so. It includes the sole right to publish, to produce or reproduce, to perform in public, to communicate a work to the public by telecommunication, to translate a work, and in some cases, to rent the work.

Registering your copyright is standard way to secure and establish proof of the material in question. In North America and most countries around the world you are automatically protected but if any problems, infringements or legal issues arise it is best to be able to prove the date and work protected.

Protection can be acheieved in a few ways.

  1. Keep excellent documented records of the development of your work.
  2. Notorizing your completed work.
  3. Registering your work with the Canadian Copyright Office

Another non-profit Canadian Copyright organization is Access Copyright

http://www.accesscopyright.ca/

Access Copyright is a Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency. It is a not-for-profit agency established in 1988 by publishers and creators to license public access to copyright works. The agency now represents a vast international repertoire along with more than 5,300 Canadian writers, photographers, illustrators and 490 newspaper, book and magazine publishers.

Science-fact-theory-hypothesis

Definitions key to discussions:

  • Fact: A fact is a statement that is true and can be proved with evidence.
  • Hypothesis: A hypothesis is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon that can be tested by the scientific method. A hypothesis has not been tested.
  • Theory: Scientific theories are distinguished from hypotheses, which are empirically testable conjectures, and from scientific laws, which are descriptive accounts of how nature behaves under certain conditions. Theories have been rigorously tested and widely accepted by the scientific community who agree the theory best explains the observations or phenomenon we experience.
  • Scientific Method: The scientific method is a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge.
  • Empirical Evidence: Empirical evidence is the knowledge received by means of the senses, particularly by observation and experimentation.
  • Reality: Reality is the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.
  • Delusion: A delusion is a belief that is held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.
  • Insanity: Insanity, craziness, or madness is a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns.