Tag Archives: IP Code Philippines
Fair Use Doesn’t Mean You Can Copy Without Asking
A short preview, a quote, an excerpt, using it without permission feels obviously harmless when nobody's getting the whole thing for free. Philippine copyright law does not treat that assumption as automatically safe, and a 2025 Supreme Court case shows just how close a call it can be, even for the Court itself.
Who Owns Your Creative Work: In-House or Outsourced
Philippine copyright law does not treat in-house and outsourced creative work as the same question. Whether your business owns a piece of creative work depends on the real relationship behind it, not the label on the contract. Here is how that plays out, and what to fix in your paperwork.
Paying for Creative Work Doesn’t Mean You Own It
Under Section 178.4 of the Philippine IP Code, a company that pays for commissioned creative work owns the physical output, but not the copyright, unless a written stipulation says otherwise. Here is what that means for the business paying the invoice and the creator who made the work.