Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright Protection

Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright Principles

The principle of intellectual property is concerned with protecting human creations and innovations, which include trademarks, inventions, copyright, copyright, models, concepts, databases, designs, drawings, and others.

Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright in the E-Learning Environment:

Intellectual property rights are a set of legal rights that protect the works of authors and creators from being reproduced and exploited by others without their consent.

Intellectual Property Rights Principles in the Smartway:

• The entity is committed to intellectual property and copyright rights in what is published on the training platform.
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• Trainers and those in their position are committed to property rights when developing content.
• In the event of using open content, the source is mentioned.
• The entity is committed to examining the content of all courses or programs and trainees' works and ensuring that they are free of intellectual property violations.

Smartway Policy for Allowing Content Publishing:

• It is prohibited to publish any content that exposes individuals or institutions or shows them in a bad way.
• It is prohibited to infringe upon the publication or quotation of content with intellectual property rights without permission or consent.
• It is prohibited to publish any content that violates religious or moral teachings.
• It is prohibited to publish any content that affects national unity (racism, sectarianism, tribalism, etc.).
• Measures taken by the Smartway in the event of a violation of intellectual property rights:

Administrative procedures: In the event of any complaint or observation regarding a violation of intellectual property rights, the entity will investigate the matter immediately. If the violation is proven, the entity will take the necessary measures, which may include a warning, immediate deletion of the violating content, a ban on using the platform, and referring the matter to the competent authorities in the event of any legal violations.

Legal procedures: The possibility of taking legal action against violators in serious cases.

Cooperation with the competent authorities: Emphasis on cooperation with the competent authorities to protect intellectual property rights

These principles apply to all beneficiaries of the Smartway services, and we are committed to ensuring the implementation of these principles, as are all employees of the entity, and any violation of these principles exposes the violator to disciplinary action according to the procedures followed in the Smartway in accordance with the procedures of the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property.