Abstract
PATENT AND UTILITY MODEL WORK IN THE FIELD OF MUSIC: A STUDY ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LITERACY AND THE REGISTRATION PROCESS
Patents and utility models are defined as an output type for all fields in the academic promotion criteria applied in Türkiye. Yet there is little evidence that academics in the field of music produce this type of output. This study examines the reasons for that scarcity along three axes, namely legislation, registration records and institutional procedure, and proposes intellectual property literacy as an explanatory framework. The research was conducted through document analysis. Records relating to music in the database of the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office, the promotion and appointment regulations of seven universities, and the relevant provisions of Industrial Property Law no. 6769 were used as data sources. The findings converge on three points. Among records relating to music, the share concerning instruments and their accessories is low. The registration examples analysed are technical solutions, yet within the field they are categorised as pedagogical or artistic products. In promotion regulations the criterion is scored generously but is placed outside the set of items from which the mandatory minimum is calculated. The study argues that the scarcity of production stems not from any prohibition of access but from the failure to recognise the field's own output as registrable and from the absence of procedural knowledge concerning registration.
Keywords
intellectual property literacy, patent, utility model, music education, academic promotion, document