Intellectual properties are a property, which protect the right of creations of works, which can be treated as an asset or physical property. This property is defined by four areas, which are copyright, trademarks, design rights and patents. This property is divided into two categories, which is Industrial Property, that includes Patents for inventions and trademarks for industrial designs, and geographical indications and Copyright that covers literary works films, music, artistic works and architectural design.
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Copyright
Copyright protects the physical expression of ideas of a work, it’s a form of protection to provide an author of original work. It can be a piece of writing, photograph, music, film, web page of been changing the original work. Copyright does not protect ideas, it only protects the specific and original expression of the idea. It’s protects a piece of work against five unauthorized acts of copying, reproduction, distribution and preparation of derivative works.
The creator of the work, author, composer, artist, photographer, designer and etc normally owns copyright works. If the work is created in the course of a person's employment, then the copyright owner is the employer.
Copyright is a property right and can be sold or transferred to others.
Some examples of works eligible for Copyright protection are:
- Literary, musical, graphic design, and sculptural works.
- Motion pictures and other audio-visual works.
- Derivatives of protected works, such as a sequel.
- Original compilations of facts, such as a field guide.
Trademark
Trademark is one of the three legal properties of the intellectual property.
This property is usually used in words phrase, symbols, design, graphic, logo and any combination that uniquely identifies it, that is used to identify particular products or services offer by a particular manufacturer or from a particular source. The trademark distinguishes and authenticates a product of a particular manufacturer from similar products offered by others. The owner of a trademark has the right to prevent others from using the same or similar trademark on their products. A "service mark" is a form of trademark that is used in the sale or advertising of services. The service mark distinguishes the services offered by one business from similar services offered by other businesses.
Some examples of works eligible for trademark protection are:
- Words phrase
- Symbols
- Graphic Design
- Sounds
- Product shapes
Design right
Design right protects an appearance of a product, including decoration, lines, contours, colors, shape, texture and materials to prevent it’s from copying. This property is similar to Copyright in that it substitutes automatically when a new design is created.
Patent
A patent is also a form of the intellectual property, which consists to protect the right of the person who invented a work. Any work characterizes by unique and original made by a particular person or group of people can be called a patent. It’s a set of exclusive rights granted by government to an inventor or applicant for a limited amount of time. Patents will give the right to prevent others from manufacturing, importing, using or selling an invention without a permission of the inventor. As a person who holders a patent, as an inventor you can generate revenue by utilizing the invention or licensing others to exploit it.
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