lørdag 19. mars 2011

Intellectual property

What is Intellectual property?
Intellectual property must be analyzed to define the concept of copyright, or intellectual property rights. Just as one must define and set limits around the concept of property rights to handle this. But if one accepts private property, then one must also accept the intellectual property rights.Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce. According to WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) is IP divided into two categories:  Industrial property, which includes inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic indications of source; and Copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, and architectural designs.
As an example, take music. If you download music from Internet without paying for it, it is the same as stealing. Your property, the physical CD you have paid for, you can do pretty much whatever you want with., but not copy or put it out on the Internet. Once you have purchased a CD, you have accepted any purchase terms.


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