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Intellectual property refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce.
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Intellectual property is divided into two categories:
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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. Rights related to copyright include those of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recordings, and those of broadcasters in their radio and television programs.
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The law of intellectual property allows people to own their creativity and innovation in the same way that they can own physical property. It allows you to claim ownership of the story, play or song you have written down, the picture you have painted, the invention you have drawn or made, the logo or product you have designed, the music, poem or dance that you have performed and recorded. Intellectual property is the physical manifestation of your ideas.
Every business has intellectual property that belongs to the business or the people who work for it. If your idea is original or new then the law not only recognises that you have a right in it but will also help you protect that right. The things that make your products or services different from those of other people are potentially rights that can be protected. |
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