The Importance Of Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property refers to any original creative work manifested in a substantial form that can be protected. When an intellectual property right is mentioned, it refers to controlling the manner in which intellectual property is used, distributed or accessed. The intellectual property right is enforced by the World Intellectual Property Organization which is an organ of the United Nations. The organization holds that intellectual property rights are those rights that a person has over their own mind creations (Bagheri and Casprini 33-34). The World Intellectual Property Organization gives the creators exclusive rights over the use of their creation for a given period of time. This essay will focus on intellectual property through the

It is due to the increasing peer-to-peer networks and higher broadband speeds that are increasingly used to share films and television programs (Chen, Shen and Tan 46). Intellectual property rights in the development of computing technology have been raised due to the massive piracy in the industry. For example, the Lost Series Five recorded the most piracy event as a show in 2010. It recorded more than two million downloads within its first week. Another more than 100,000 people reported to be sharing a single “torrent” (peer-to-peer sharing metadata file). In fact, a subtitled version of the final episode of Lost in Portuguese reportedly appeared, within 20 minutes of broadcast, on the pirate website. These show how an intellectual property right is a significant concern in the development of computing technologies (Dodeja

However, their relative importance varies with their field. Patents are specifically important in the development of science and computing technologies. While social sciences and arts are normally concerned with copyright, the expansion of database and computing technologies gives database rights and copyright and increasing importance to the sciences. Intellectual property is categorized into categories: copyright and industrial property. However, the major types of intellectual property rights in the development of computing technologies include Copyright, Database rights, Patent, Trademarks, Performance rights, and Design rights (Cook