Neither ever ends up happy. Since Mr. Salloum is an astute businessman, I suppose he knows that if you find out the advertising rate for these magazines, total the average advertising and subtract the editorial and printing costs, you can pretty much figure out how much money these souvenirs really make. That alone would make it clear that demands for this kind of money can't be supported on any financial basis. Since it's possible to figure it out, I have to assume that the NCBA simply doesn't care. The timing of the royalty demand also seems to support a blackmailer's strategy, arriving as it did on the eve of carnival, at a point when advertisers will already have committed to the magazine and returning were as tedious as going o'er.
Intellectual property is a trendy term that manages to be both imposing and vague at the same time.
In brief, it refers to those rights invested in a creative work which belong to its author beyond that of physically owning the property itself. Many of these rights relate to the right to reproduce the creative work and to profit by such reproduction. On the surface of the matter, the NCBA has an unassailable point. Whatever your feelings regarding the depth of creative intellect invested in a purple bikini with gold beads, someone designed it and if it should prove popular in the world, that designer should profit from it. Let's step back from our image of the purple and gold design success and have a look at the infringing photo.